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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Balk \Balk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Balked} (?); 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.] 1. To leave or make balks in [Obs.] --Gower. 2. To leave heaped up to heap up in piles. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see --Shak. 3. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [Obs.] 4. To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the ?nns. --Evelyn. Sick he is and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. --Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth --Drayton. 5. To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to ?hwart; as to balk expectation. They shall not balk my entrance. --Byron. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: balking adj : stopping short and refusing to go on "a balking "; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer" [syn: {balky}]
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