To disappoint; to frustrate.
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 leave or make balks in.
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.
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 be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
To ruin.
To fish for crabs.
To move (a camera) sideways.
To back out of something.
To complain about.
To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
To complain.
The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
A playing card with the rank of three.
The crab apple or wild apple.
The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
A bad-tempered person.