To leave or make balks in.
To refuse suddenly.
To stop short and refuse to go on.
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
To stop, check, block.
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
To disappoint; to frustrate.
Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
A sudden and obstinate stop.
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
To leave.
To record bets as bookmaker.
To receive the highest grade in a class.
To reserve (something) for future use.
To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
simple past tense of bake
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
To travel very fast.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
A major division of a long work.
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
Records of the accounts of a business.
A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
Six tricks taken by one side.
Four of a kind.
The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
The script of a musical or opera.
A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
Any source of instruction.
The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.