Crossword-Solution: BALK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Balk | v. i. | A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. |
| Balk | v. i. | A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." |
| Balk | v. i. | One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge. |
| Balk | v. i. | A hindrance or disappointment; a check. |
| Balk | v. i. | A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure. |
| Balk | v. i. | A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball. |
| Balk | v. t. | To leave or make balks in. |
| Balk | v. t. | To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. |
| Balk | v. t. | To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. |
| Balk | v. t. | To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. |
| Balk | v. t. | To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation. |
| Balk | v. i. | To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. |
| Balk | v. i. | To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks. |
| Balk | v. i. | To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BALK | anagram | BAKL, KALB |
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Sentences with BALK (5)
Pontellier had saved appearances! Edna admired the skill of his maneuver, and avoided any occasion to balk his intentions.
Matched with a heifer, who would prate of cups? MENALCAS You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid, I shall be with you; only let us have For auditor- or see, to serve our turn, Yonder Palaemon comes! In singing-bouts I'll see you play the challenger no more.
Balk line (Billiards), a line across a billiard table near one end, marking a limit within which the cue balls are placed in beginning a game; also, a line around the table, parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game, called the balk line game.
Over all the heaven above, over all the earth beneath, there was no visible power that could balk the fierce will of the sun: “he rejoiced as a strong man to run a race; his going forth was from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it; and there was nothing hid from the heat thereof.” From pole to pole, and from the east to the west, he brandished his fiery sceptre as though he had usurped all heaven and earth.
All the woodwork and metalwork was cut, and tongued, and forged, and fitted first by skilled craftsmen below, in the plain at the foot of the cleft; and when each ponderous balk and each crosspiece, and each plank was dragged up the steep pass through the conquered gates, it was ready instantly for fitting into its appointed place in the completed machine.
Quotes with BALK (3)
This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to destroy civilization.
The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not re…
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 138 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).