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ws, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

One who, or that which balks.

In manner to balk or frustrate.

Uneven; ridgy. [R.] Holinshed.

Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

See Balk.

A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was excepted, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil…

Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. Shak.

To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat. And by foiled. Dryden. Her long locks that foil the painter's power. Byron.

To balk. See Jib, v. i. Youatt.

A balky horse. Youatt.

One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker.

To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk. [Written also jibb.] [Eng.]

To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.

ll reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.