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Balker

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that balks; a naysayer.
  2. 2
    a person who refuses to comply wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass. obsolete

    "The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish, called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish, who leapeth now and then aboue water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the Balker […]"

Etymology

From balk + -er.

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