balkern.1
One who balks; one who makes balks, or frequents them.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman
earthlingOE
ploughman1223
earmana1250
ploughswain1296
earera1382
plougher?1518
balker1549
scratcher1557
bawker1591
plough-jogger1600
plough-jobber1667
plough woman1783
tailsman1867
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Bvii They walk not directlye & playnlye but delyght in balkes & stubbil way... Let vs no more desyer to be baukers [printed bankers].
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) Balker, imporcator.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
balkern.2
A man stationed on an eminence by the shore to signal to fishing-boats the direction taken by the shoals of herring or pilchards; a huer, hooer, or conder.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun] > signalling fishing boats > one who signals to boats
balker1602
conder1603
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 32v Directed in theire worke, by a Balker, or Huer, who standeth on the Cliffe side, and from thence, best discerneth the quantitie and course of the Pilcherd.
1603 Act 1 Jas. I c. 23 Diuers persons..called Balcors, Huors, Condors, Directors or Guidors..have vsed to watch and attend vpon the high Hilles and Grounds neere adioyning to the Sea Coasts for the giving Notice to the Fishermen.
1754 T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich 163 A Conder..whereon the Balkers stood to notify, by Signals of Boughs..the Direction of the Herring Sholes.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 152 Let them be our quarry men, our falcons..our balkers,—‘herrings ahead, ho!’
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