Definitions for baulks

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baulks baulk

Spelling: [bawk]

IPA: /bɔk/

Baulks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in baulks (abklsu).

Definitions for baulks

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 baulks

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 baulks

Then upon the latter are laid "baulks" and upon them the flooring as usual.

A tackle hooked to one of the baulks of timber forming the staith was being hauled at by five women and two men!

The hole was soon dug and the anchor deposited therein, planks and baulks of timber being laid upon it as before.

So these "baulks" are made like planks, very oblong if looked at endwise, also thinner at the ends than in the middle.

The pairs of rafts are joined by three baulks 15 ft. long laid in parallel grooves in the framing.

The marks of teeth and claws on some of the baulks of the palisade showed us that the visitor had climbed over.

Cox won't ride him because he baulks, and so he has come into my stable.

Before leaving the hut we jammed the window up with baulks of timber, to the best of our ability, in the storm and darkness.

The party wall had already been removed, and the structure above rested on baulks and beams.

For a single instant the stockade became outlined, and Dick thought he saw heads peeping up above the baulks of timber.