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Baulk
//bɔk// noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 Alternative spelling of balk. UK, alt-of, alternative
"'And am I to plunge a harpoon into that beast!' 'That's your privilege, my son,' said Malone, 'and, sad to relate, unless I give it a miss in baulk, I shall have to be at your side when you do it.'"
- 2 one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof wordnet
- 3 something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress wordnet
- 4 the area on a billiard table behind the balkline wordnet
Verb
- 1 Alternative spelling of balk. UK, alt-of, alternative
"What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness?"
- 2 refuse to comply wordnet
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