Alternativa stavningar

  • (brittisk engelska) baulk

Uttal

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Definitioner

Verb

  1. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
  2. (archaic) To pass over or by.
  3. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
  4. (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
  5. To stop, check, block.
  6. To stop short and refuse to go on.
  7. To refuse suddenly.
  8. To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart.
  9. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
  10. To leave or make balks in.
  11. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

Substantiv

  1. An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
  2. (archaeology) the wall of earth at the edge of an excavation
  3. beam, crossbeam
  4. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
  5. A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
  6. (sports) deceptive motion; feint
  7. (baseball) an illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner
  8. (badminton) motion used to deceive an opponent during a serve

Exempel

  • Bad ploughmen made balks of such ground.
  • a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker
  • By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the nns.
  • Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
  • Nor doth he any creature balk, / But lays on all he meeteth.
  • The horse balked.
  • to balk expectation
  • They shall not balk my entrance.
  • In strifeful terms with him to balk.
  • Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, / Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipbalkedImperfektbalked
PresensparticipbalkingPluralbalks
Tredje person singular indicativ presensbalksTredje person singular indicativ presensbalketh