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Baulker
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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Baulker
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1. (intransitive; usually foll by at)
to stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly; jib
the horse balked at the jump
2. (intransitive; foll by at)
to turn away abruptly; recoil
he balked at the idea of murder
3. (transitive)
to thwart, check, disappoint, or foil
he was balked in his plans
4. (transitive)
to avoid deliberately
he balked the question
5. (transitive)
to miss unintentionally
noun
6.
a roughly squared heavy timber beam
7.
a timber tie beam of a roof
8.
an unploughed ridge to prevent soil erosion or mark a division on common land
9.
an obstacle; hindrance; disappointment
10. baseball
an illegal motion by a pitcher towards the plate or towards the base when there are runners on base, esp without delivering the ball
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Baulker
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1.
a ridge of unplowed land between furrows
2.
a roughly hewn piece of timber
3.
a beam used in construction
4.
something that obstructs or thwarts; check, hindrance, disappointment, etc.
5. Obsolete
a blunder; error
6. Baseball
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
7. Billiards
any of the outer spaces between the cushions and the balkline
verb transitive
8. Obsolete
to make balks in (land)
9.
to obstruct or thwart; foil
10. Archaic
to miss or let slip by
11. Baseball
to force (a base runner to score from third base) by committing a balk
verb intransitive
12.
to stop and obstinately refuse to move or act
13.
to hesitate or recoil (at)
14.
to make a balk in baseball
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