balk
balk / bôk/ (Brit. also baulk) • v. [intr.] 1. hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking: any gardener will at first balk at enclosing the garden. ∎ (of a horse) refuse to go on.2. Baseball (of a pitcher) make an illegal motion, penalized by an advance of the base runners: the rookie balked and permitted Robinson to score.• n. 1. Baseball an illegal motion made by a pitcher that may deceive a base runner.2. any area on a pool or billiard table in which play is restricted in some way.
balk
balk
Balk
Balk
a ridge or heap on the ground. See also bank, bar.
Examples: balk of earth; of good ground, 1605; of money, 1652; of sand, 1538.
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