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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
balk \balk\, v. t. imp. p. p. balked baddkt; p. pr.
vb. n. balking. from balk a beam; orig. to put a balk
or beam in one's way, in order to stop or hinder. cf., for
sense 2, as. on balcan legan to lay in heaps.
1913 webster
1. to leave or make balks in. obs. --gower.
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2. to leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. obs.
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ten thousand bold scots, two and twenty knights,
balk'd in their own blood did sir walter see.
--shak.
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3. to omit, miss, or overlook by chance. obs.
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4. to miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to
let go by; to shirk. obs. or obsolescent
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by reason of the contagion then in london, we balked
the inns. --evelyn.
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sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
--bp. hall.
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nor doth he any creature balk,
but lays on all he meeteth. --drayton.
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5. to disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to
thwart; as, to balk expectation.
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they shall not balk my entrance. --byron.
1913 webster
see also:
balked balking balk
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
balking
adj : stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky
mule"; "a balky customer" syn: balky
see also:
balky
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