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/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
  1. stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer"
  2. (balk) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"
  3. (balk) hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  4. (balk) rafter: one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
  5. (balk) an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
  6. (balker) a person who refuses to comply
  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. (Balk (billiards)) 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 ...
  9. (Balk (Netherlands)) 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. (Balker) In English fishing customs, a conder, also called a huer or bulker, was a person who stood on high places near the sea coast, in times of herring-fishing, to signal to the fishers which way the shoal of herrings or pilchards passed--their course being more discernible to those who stand ...
  11. (balk) 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. ...
  12. (Balk (Feint)) Any deceptive movement that disconcerts an opponent before or during the service.
  13. (Balk) When a horse disobeys the rider's signals to move and instead stops or refuses to move.
  14. (Balk) A ridge left between two furrows, or a strip of ground left unploughed as a boundary line between two ploughed portions.
  15. (Balk) To interfere or cause another bowler to stop or not complete in their normal actions.
  16. (BALK) Your inadvertent signal that the vendor interprets as meaning you want to buy ten hot dogs
  17. (Balk) A hewn tree; a piece of timber for masts, &c.
  18. (Balk) A pitcher is charged with a balk when he illegally interrupts his pitching motion. A balk can be charged only when a runner is on base. An umpire makes the decision, and the penalty is high: Each base runner moves to the next base. ...
  19. (Balk) 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.
  20. (Balk) Dog refuses to leave handler when ordered to retrieve. Also called a "no-go".
  21. (Balk) The material between two excavations. Also called baulk.
  22. (Balk) Turf left unplowed to provide separation between strips.
  23. (Balk) When a diver initiates motion to begin a dive but discontinues before leaving the diving board. A balk is declared by the referee and causes a deduction of two points per judge.
  24. (Balk) When a horse refuses to move forward or to go over an obstacle. In competitive riding, this normally results in penalty points.
  25. (Balk) When a jumper releases the ski rope handle and skis past or over a portion of the left side of the ramp.