balk

(agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.

(archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.

Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

, "Concealment of Sin" a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker

A sudden and obstinate stop.

Đồng nghĩa: failure

(obsolete)An omission.

(sports) A deceptive motion.

(billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.

(snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.

(fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.

(UK, dialectal)(UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.

To be unwilling to do something; to refuse to proceed or do or allow something, either in general or only temporarily.

balked at paying a day's wages for a pencil; he said he would buy her one, but when he saw the price, he balked

Carla balked for a moment, but when the badge and identification was produced, she acquiesced immediately. "Of course, Director, what can I do for you?"

(especially)(especially of a horse, mule, etc) To stop short and refuse to go on or do something (such as jump).

The horse balked.

"Her horse balked at the jump and threw her," said Michael.

Đồng nghĩa: jib

To move fitfully, stopping frequently.

The horses balked up the canyon, / But we made it with half a load. / Got to the top with panniers. / Went back for the bedding stowed.

[…] balked up the hills, then careened and slid on the downside, threatening to overturn.

[…] thin road, gunning madly past the old rusty trucks balking up the mountain to Boulem while Badra drifted in and out of consciousness in the back.

To leave or make a balk or balks (ridges) in; to leave a ridge in by leaving partly unploughed.

[…] balking up the field.

[…] balking up the rows and running the water down from the balks;

To stop, check, block (by or as if by an obstacle); to hinder, impede, thwart.

My Sport is always balkt, or cut short — I stumble over the Game me I would pursue

[…] the sturdy cavalier was not to be balked in his purpose; […]

an incipient accretion of rotundity recently balked his entrance to a boiler wherein his expert scrutiny was imperatively demanded,

[…] had neither been balked nor been frightened by this overwhelming man.

(obsolete, possibly)(possibly obsolete) To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

(obsolete, possibly)(possibly obsolete) To pass over or by (either by chance or intentionally); to avoid in passing.

Jericho was in his way from Galilee to Jerusalem: he baulks it not, though it were outwardly cursed.

I hope you will not balk Totteridge, if I am here.

Going to Lord Carendon ... baulking the Secretary.

(possibly obsolete) To refuse or fail to use (something), either through error or intentionally.

To disappoint, frustrate, or check.

to balk expectation

Nor doth it balk my charity, to find Th' Egyptian bishop of another mind:

[…] balk yourself of the pleasure of bullying and making her unhappy.

Đồng nghĩa: frustrate, foil, baffle, thwart

(obsolete, possibly)(possibly obsolete) To quibble or bandy words with; engage in opposing, contradicting, or arguing with.

They do not divide and baulk with God.

(intransitive)(intransitive, sports) To make a balk, a deceptive motion to deceive another player.