Definitions for baulk

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baulk baulk

Spelling: [bawk]

IPA: /bɔk/

Baulk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in baulk (abklu).

Definitions for baulk

noun

1. a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment.
2. a strip of land left unplowed.
3. a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam.
4. any heavy timber used for building purposes.
5. 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.
6. Billiards. any of the eight panels or compartments lying between the cushions of the table and the balklines.
7. Obsolete. a miss, slip, or failure:

Idioms

1. in balk, inside any of the spaces in back of the balklines on a billiard table.

verb (used with object)

1. to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart:
2. Archaic. to let slip; fail to use:

verb (used without object)

1. to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at):
2. (of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
3. Baseball. to commit a balk.

verb (used with or without object), noun

1. balk.

Origin of baulk

before 900; Middle English; Old English balca covering, beam, ridge; cognate with Old Norse bǫlkr bar, partition, Dutch balk, Old Saxon balko, German Balken, Old Norse bjalki beam, Old Englis

Examples for baulk

On that night, I determined to baulk your curiosity, and yet to gain your confidence; and I succeeded.

She hit it hard on the side, and both balls came into baulk.

He had brought himself to the point that he would not conceive an obstacle that should baulk him.

He said he would even have spent as much, to baulk or injure Copperfield.'

You may baulk all the bailiffs, and defy any other man to serve you with a writ; but, by jingo!

She had concocted this scene in the carriage, and nothing should baulk her of it.

As he spoke the massive doors crashed in beneath the blows of a baulk of timber.

Will was with me, and both ever too well disposed to baulk an opportunity.

All the rules of pool are followed, except that the baulk is a protection.

What point of duty calls on us to baulk the skipper in his trade?