ALL meanings of balk
balk
B b - verb balk If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen. 3
- verb balk to stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly; jib 3
- verb balk to turn away abruptly; recoil 3
- verb balk to thwart, check, disappoint, or foil 3
- verb balk to avoid deliberately 3
- verb balk to miss unintentionally 3
- noun balk a roughly squared heavy timber beam 3
- noun balk a timber tie beam of a roof 3
- noun balk an unploughed ridge to prevent soil erosion or mark a division on common land 3
- noun balk an obstacle; hindrance; disappointment 3
- noun balk an illegal motion by a pitcher towards the plate or towards the base when there are runners on base, esp without delivering the ball 3
- noun balk a ridge of unplowed land between furrows 3
- noun balk a roughly hewn piece of timber 3
- noun balk a beam used in construction 3
- noun balk something that obstructs or thwarts; check, hindrance, disappointment, etc. 3
- noun balk a blunder; error 3
- noun balk an illegal motion by the pitcher, such as an uncompleted motion to throw to a base, while one foot is on the rubber: it entitles each base runner to advance one base 3
- noun balk any of the outer spaces between the cushions and the balkline 3
- verb transitive balk to make balks in (land) 3
- verb transitive balk to obstruct or thwart; foil 3
- verb transitive balk to miss or let slip by 3
- verb transitive balk to force (a base runner to score from third base) by committing a balk 3
- intransitive verb balk to stop and obstinately refuse to move or act 3
- intransitive verb balk to hesitate or recoil (at) 3
- intransitive verb balk to make a balk in baseball 3
- verb without object balk to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech. 2
- noun balk Hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking. 1
- verb without object balk (of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on. 1
- verb without object balk Baseball. to commit a balk. 1
- verb with object balk to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes. 1
- verb with object balk Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity. 1
- noun balk a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment. 1
- noun balk a strip of land left unplowed. 1
- noun balk a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam. 1
- noun balk any heavy timber used for building purposes. 1
- noun balk 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. 1
- noun balk Billiards. any of the eight panels or compartments lying between the cushions of the table and the balklines. 1
- noun balk Obsolete. a miss, slip, or failure: to make a balk. 1
- idioms balk in balk, inside any of the spaces in back of the balklines on a billiard table. 1
- intransitive verb balk refuse to go on or do sth 1
- intransitive verb balk refuse to go on 1
- intransitive verb balk refuse to do sth 1
- intransitive verb balk reject, recoil from sth 1
- noun balk An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. 0
- noun balk (archaeology) the wall of earth at the edge of an excavation. 0
- noun balk beam, crossbeam. 0
- noun balk A hindrance or disappointment; a check. 0
- noun balk A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure. 0
- noun balk (sports) deceptive motion; feint. 0
- verb balk (archaic) To pass over or by. 0