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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
  1. Baulking is a village and civil parish about southeast of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.
  2. (Baulking) Refusing to start. See Jibbing.
  3. (Baulking) (a kind of pump fake a.k.a. hezie or hesitation shot) is effective when using an outside water shot. The player gets in the position to shoot but stops halfway through. This puts the defense on edge and partially immobilizes the goalie by wasting his blocking lunge. ...
  4. (baulking) South Africans are more used to the Afrikaans mik - pretending to throw but not throwing. This is wrong at a line-out or behind a ruck, maul or scrum.