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Balk

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Noun

1. balk, baulk

the area on a billiard table behind the balkline

Example Sentences:
'a player with ball in hand must play from the balk'

2. balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment

something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

3. balk, baulk, rafter

one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

4. balk

an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

Verb

5. balk, baulk, jib, resist

refuse to comply

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Balk

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verb
1. (intransitive; usually foll by at)
to stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly; jib
the horse balked at the jump
2. (intransitive; foll by at)
to turn away abruptly; recoil
he balked at the idea of murder
3. (transitive)
to thwart, check, disappoint, or foil
he was balked in his plans
4. (transitive)
to avoid deliberately
he balked the question
5. (transitive)
to miss unintentionally
noun
6. 
a roughly squared heavy timber beam
7. 
a timber tie beam of a roof
8. 
an unploughed ridge to prevent soil erosion or mark a division on common land
9. 
an obstacle; hindrance; disappointment
10. baseball
an illegal motion by a pitcher towards the plate or towards the base when there are runners on base, esp without delivering the ball

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Balk

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noun
1. 
a ridge of unplowed land between furrows
2. 
a roughly hewn piece of timber
3. 
a beam used in construction
4. 
something that obstructs or thwarts; check, hindrance, disappointment, etc.
5.  Obsolete
a blunder; error
6.  Baseball
an illegal motion by the pitcher, such as an uncompleted motion to throw to a base, while one foot is on the rubber: it entitles each base runner to advance one base
7.  Billiards
any of the outer spaces between the cushions and the balkline
verb transitive
8.  Obsolete
to make balks in (land)
9. 
to obstruct or thwart; foil
10.  Archaic
to miss or let slip by
11.  Baseball
to force (a base runner to score from third base) by committing a balk
verb intransitive
12. 
to stop and obstinately refuse to move or act
13. 
to hesitate or recoil (at)
14. 
to make a balk in baseball

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Balk

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v. balked, balk·ing, balks
v.intr.
1. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump.
2. To refuse obstinately or abruptly: She balked at the very idea of compromise.
3.
a. Sports To make an incomplete or misleading motion.
b. Baseball To make an illegal motion before pitching, allowing one or more base runners to advance one base.
v.tr.
1. To check or thwart by or as if by an obstacle.
2. Archaic To let go by; miss.
n.
1. A hindrance, check, or defeat.
2. Sports An incomplete or misleading motion, especially an illegal move made by a baseball pitcher.
3. Games One of the spaces between the cushion and the balk line on a billiard table.
4.
a. An unplowed strip of land.
b. A ridge between furrows.
5. A wooden beam or rafter.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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