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Balk

noun

The area on a billiard table behind the balkline. Synonym: baulk.

Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress. Synonyms: baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment.

One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof. Synonyms: baulk, rafter.

An illegal pitching motion while runners are on base.

verb

(past & past part. balked; pres. part. balking)

Refuse to comply. Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist.

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"Balk" Quotes from Famous Books

... face, Or put one feature out of place; Nor will you find your fortune sink By what they speak or what they think; Nor can ten hundred thousand lies Make you less virtuous, learn'd, or wise. The most effectual way to balk Their malice, ...

— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... anything below you which reason and your own circumstances require, and never suffer yourself to be deterred by the ill-grounded notions of censure and reproach; but when honesty and conscience prompt you to say or do anything, do it boldly; never balk your resolution or start at ...

— Dickory Cronke - The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder • Daniel Defoe

... demoralization amid rank and file as to render the men unreliable in battle. I cannot give a more forcible, though homely, exemplification of the morale of the troops at that period than by comparing the Army to a team which has been allowed to balk at every hill, one portion will make strenuous efforts to advance, whilst the other will refuse to move, and thus paralyze the exertions of the first. Moreover, it will work faultlessly one day and stall the next. No reliance can be placed ...

— Memories - A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War • Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers

... Republican convention to be more explicit than it had hitherto ventured to be. As leader after leader arrived who was insistent upon a gold standard, it became increasingly evident to Hanna that he must proceed with caution. If McKinley committed himself to gold, the silver advocates would balk at his candidacy, and perhaps unite on somebody else; if he committed himself to silver, he would lose the eastern leaders. The astute Hanna therefore allowed sentiment in favor of the gold plank to gather force, although holding the discussion as far ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... cannot deny it. It is so much pleasanter to give than to pay, that I can never find heart to balk myself. I am ever surrounded by suitors. Some have lost estates in my cause, others have rendered brilliant services in the field, some have burdened themselves with debts to put their retainers in arms—all ...

— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty

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