Balk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.

   “How fruitfull are the ſeeming Barren places of Scripture. Bad Plow-men, which make Balkes of ſuch Ground.”

2. isim The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
3. isim 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".
4. isim A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

   “, "Concealment of Sin" a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker”

5. isim A sudden and obstinate stop.
6. isim An omission.
7. isim An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
8. isim A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
9. isim 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.
10. isim The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
11. isim The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
12. fiil To be unwilling to do something; to refuse to proceed or do or allow something, either in general or only temporarily.

    “balked at paying a day's wages for a pencil; he said he would buy her one, but when he saw the price, he balked”

13. fiil To stop short and refuse to go on or do something (such as jump).

    “The horse balked.”

14. fiil To move fitfully, stopping frequently.

    “The horses balked up the canyon, / But we made it with half a load. / Got to the top with panniers. / Went back for the bedding stowed.”

15. fiil To leave or make a balk or balks (ridges) in; to leave a ridge in by leaving partly unploughed.

    “But so well halt no man the plough, / That he ne balketh other while”

16. fiil To stop, check, block (by or as if by an obstacle); to hinder, impede, thwart.

    “My Sport is always balkt, or cut short — I stumble over the Game me I would pursue —”

17. fiil To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

    “Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, / Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.”

18. fiil To pass over or by (either by chance or intentionally); to avoid in passing.

    “Jericho was in his way from Galilee to Jerusalem: he baulks it not, though it were outwardly cursed.”

19. fiil To omit, miss, or overlook by chance, error, or inadvertance.

    “[…] you cannot baulk your Road without the hazard of drowning”

20. fiil To miss intentionally; to avoid, ignore, or shun.

    “Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.”

21. fiil To refuse (something).

    “And balke your bed for shame.”

22. fiil To let (something) slip; to fail to use or seize or keep (something).

    “to balk an opportunity”

23. fiil To disappoint, frustrate, or check.

    “to balk expectation”

24. fiil To quibble or bandy words with; engage in opposing, contradicting, or arguing with.

    “Her list in strifull termes with him to balke”

25. fiil To make a balk, a deceptive motion to deceive another player.

    “The best advice you can receive regarding balking is to always maintain poise and composure on the mound.”

26. isim A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
27. özel isim A surname.