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Verb
/bôk/,
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balking, present participle; baulking, present participle; baulks, 3rd person singular present; baulked, past tense; balked, past tense; balked, past participle; baulked, past participle; balks, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
    • - any gardener will at first balk at enclosing the garden
  2. Thwart or hinder (a plan or person)
    • - the utmost of his influence will be invoked to balk the law
  3. Prevent a person or animal from having (something)
    • - the lions, fearing to be balked of their prey
  4. (of a horse) Refuse to go on

  5. Miss or refuse (a chance or invitation)

  6. (of a pitcher) Make an illegal motion, penalized by an advance of the base runners
    • - the rookie balked and permitted Robinson to score
Noun
  1. An illegal motion made by a pitcher that may deceive a base runner

  2. A roughly squared timber beam

  3. Any area on a pool or billiard table in which play is restricted in some way

  4. A ridge left unplowed between furrows

  1. resist: refuse to comply
  2. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"
  3. hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  4. rafter: one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
  5. an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
  6. (balking) stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer"
  7. In baseball, a pitcher may commit a number of illegal motions or actions which constitute a balk. In games played under Official Baseball Rules, a balk results in a delayed dead ball, and the balk is ignored under specified circumstances. ...
  8. The following is an encyclopedic glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: pocket billiards (pool), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a table ...
  9. Balk is a town in the Dutch province of Friesland. It is the main village of the municipality Gaasterlân-Sleat, and lies about 17 km southwest of the city of Sneek.
  10. ridge, an unplowed strip of land. (One use is to walk on it.); beam; hindrance; blunder; deceptive motion; feint (baseball) an illegal motion intended to deceive a runner. ...
  11. (Balking) When a horse refuses to move.^ Multiple causes, including disobedience, fright, and pain or injury. See also napping.
  12. (Balks (Bk)) Available for most seasons in major-league history from a combination of official and reconstructed sources.
  13. Any deceptive movement that disconcerts an opponent before or during the service.
  14. When an athlete abruptly fails to complete his motion, he is penalized for having "balked"; when a beast of burden abruptly stops short and refuses to proceed, it's whipped. As Foucault explains, we must discipline those who experience moments of complete lucidity ("What the hell am I doing? ...
  15. A side wall of an excavated unit (square) or a partition of earth left standing between adjoining excavation units. Balks are often left to aid with stratigraphic analysis.
  16. The material between two excavations. Also called baulk.
  17. A hewn tree; a piece of timber for masts, &c.
  18. A ridge left between two furrows, or a strip of ground left unploughed as a boundary line between two ploughed portions.
  19. 1) An incomplete approach in which the bowler does not deliver the ball; 2) to interfere or cause another bowler to stop his approach or not complete it in his normal fashion.
  20. a narrow barrier of earth within the ditch of an earthwork that was purposely left unexcavated. Balks sometimes marked divisions between units in the line. A balk might also serve as the base for a traverse made of logs.
  21. When a horse refuses to move forward or to go over an obstacle. In competitive riding, this normally results in penalty points.
  22. Your inadvertent signal that the vendor interprets as meaning you want to buy ten hot dogs
  23. a penalty assessed to the pitcher who has begun their delivery to home plate and then stops.  If penalty is called by the umpire, the runners advance one base.
  24. is something you might hear the umpire call. It means that there’s to be a penalty because the pitcher made an illegal movement . . . naughty naughty. It’s to stop pitchers from deliberately trying to deceive runners and if it’s called the baserunners can each advance one base
  25. Dog refuses to leave handler when ordered to retrieve. Also called a "no-go".