Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Chiefly British Variant of balk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See balk.
Wiktionary
- n. UK alternative spelling of balk.
- n. UK In 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.
- v. UK alternative spelling of balk.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- v. refuse to comply
- n. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- n. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
Etymologies
- See balk (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Upon a baulk, that is, an unploughed ridge of land interposed among the corn, the Laird's trusty palfrey was tethered by the head, and picking a meal of grass.”
“If we leave unstimulated, or, to use a shorter term, if we "baulk" any one of our main dispositions, Curiosity, Property, Trial and Error, Sex, and the rest, we produce in ourselves a state of nervous strain.”
“It seemed to her that she had been in the timber trade for ages and ages, and that the most important and necessary thing in life was timber; and there was something intimate and touching to her in the very sound of words such as "baulk," "post," "beam," "pole,”
“XII. 422 we have "a common field," and men measuring a strip and quarrelling about the marking-stones, across the "baulk," but it does not follow that they are owners; they may be tenants.”
“Upon a baulk, that is, an unploughed ridge of land interposed among the corn, the Laird’s trusty palfrey was tethered by the head, and picking a meal of grass.”
“Others fear the destruction of areas of outstanding natural beauty or indeed, just baulk at the idea of a railway line running close to where they live.”
“The brown, which he attempted along the baulk cushion, was the worst shot.”
The Guardian: John Higgins' Wembley curse strikes again in defeat to Graeme Dott
“Anyone think CI Silver will baulk at paying me offshore in Zimbabwean blood diamonds or my idea to source all police catering at the same place? on February 28, 2010 at 10: 29 pm inspectorgadget”
“All that said, I still baulk at the idea of paying £30+ per month for a mobile phone contract.”
“Wenders sets several dances – and purists may baulk at this – in spectacular outdoor locations; for me the experience was nothing but uplifting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘baulk’.
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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words unfamiliar to me.
Unfamiliar words that are pleasing, or interesting.
tacit, repudiate, laconic, erudite, disabuse, guile, zeitgeist, cherubic, subvert, senescence, salient, fecund and 93 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Useful for Prose
Good words I should know, and might employ in prose.
germane, dint, wont, putative, polemic, platitude, ineffable, maunder, laconic, voluble, quintessential, heresy and 54 more...
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Ridge
Words meaning ridge.
corrugation, chine, culmen, balk, baulk, porca, carina, gonys, jugum, plica, crest, crista
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I've Run a Fowles.
Words from The Magus
magus, bougainvillea, innermost, numen, imbricate, bilges, sandal-wood, incorporeal, fleshpot, desipience, batrachian, caique and 82 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "I am very much afraid that we are going to be baulked of our galley—pipped on the post—done brown."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 249
A Sea of Words: "Baulk: A roughly squared beam of timber. Sometimes used specifically to designate Baltic timber, which is roughly dressed before shipment." Mar 25, 2008