balk or baulk /bö(l)k/

1. To pull up or stop short
2. To refuse a jump, etc
3. To jib (at something) (figurative)
4. To lie out of the way (Spenser)
5. To bandy words (obsolete)

1. To shirk, avoid
2. To decline
3. To ignore, pass over
4. To let slip
5. To put a stumbling-block in the way of, to thwart, frustrate, foil, check
6. To chop (logic) (Shakespeare)

1. A check, frustration
2. A disappointment
3. A failure to take a jump or the like
4. The part of a snooker table marked off by the balkline
5. An illegal action made by the pitcher to deceive a baserunner (baseball)
6. A squared timber
7. A tie-beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, esp when laid so as to form a loft (the balks)
8. An unploughed ridge
9. A place overlooked, an omission (obsolete)
10. A ridge (obsolete)
11. The beam of a balance (obsolete)
12. A rope to connect fishing-nets

balk'd adjective (Shakespeare)

Prob heaped in balks

balkˈer noun

balkˈiness noun

balkˈing noun and adjective

balkˈingly adverb

• Bollandist
• bollard
• bollards
• bolled
• bollen
• bolletrie
• bolling
• bollix
• bollixed
• bollixes
• bollixing
• bollock
• bollocked
• bollocking
• bollockings
• bollock-naked
• bollocks
• bollocksed
• bollockses
• bollocksing
• bolls
• boll weevil
• boll weevils
• bollworm
• bollworms