| 单词 | balk |
| 释义 | balk —balker, n. —balkingly, adv. /bawk/, v.i. 1. to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually fol. by at): He balked at making the speech. 2. (of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on. 3. Baseball. to commit a balk. v.t. 4. to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes. 5. Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity. n. 6. a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment. 7. a strip of land left unplowed. 8. a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam. 9. any heavy timber used for building purposes. 10. Baseball. an illegal motion by a pitcher while one or more runners are on base, as a pitch in which there is either an insufficient or too long a pause after the windup or stretch, a pretended throw to first or third base or to the batter with one foot on the pitcher's rubber, etc., resulting in a penalty advancing the runner or runners one base. 11. Billiards. any of the eight panels or compartments lying between the cushions of the table and the balklines. 12. Obs. a miss, slip, or failure: to make a balk. 13. in balk, inside any of the spaces in back of the balklines on a billiard table. Also, baulk. [bef. 900; ME; OE balca covering, beam, ridge; c. ON bolkr bar, partition, D balk, OS balko, G Balken, ON bjalki beam, OE bolca plank; perh. akin to L sufflamen, Slovene blazína, Lith balzíenas beam. See BALCONY] Syn. 4. check, retard, obstruct, impede, prevent. |
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