Usually means: Hesitate or refuse to proceed.
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  1. balk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. balk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. balk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. balk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. balk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Balk, balk: Wordnik
  7. balk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Balk, balk: Wiktionary
  9. balk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. balk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. balk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Balk, balk: Dictionary.com
  13. balk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Balk (baseball), Balk (disambiguation), Balk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Balk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. balk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. balk (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. balk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Balk: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. balk: Free Dictionary
  21. balk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. balk: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. balk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  24. balk: Rhymezone
  25. Balk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  26. balk: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Balk (baseball), balk: Legal dictionary

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  1. Balk (baseball), balk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Balk (baseball), balk: Medical dictionary

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  1. balk: Idioms

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  1. balk: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  3. Balk: Sports Definitions
  4. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See balked as well.)

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noun:  (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
noun:  (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
noun:  Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
noun:  A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
noun:  A sudden and obstinate stop.
noun:  (obsolete) An omission.
noun:  (sports) A deceptive motion.
noun:  (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
noun:  (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
noun:  (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
noun:  (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
noun:  (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
verb:  (archaic) To pass over or by.
verb:  To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
verb:  (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
verb:  To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
verb:  To stop short and refuse to go on.
verb:  To refuse suddenly.
verb:  To disappoint; to frustrate.
verb:  To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
verb:  To leave or make balks in.
verb:  To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
verb:  (sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
verb:  To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
noun:  A surname.

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