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 complain, to grumble
To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
A bed for a child older than a baby.
One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
A wicker basket.
A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
The card game cribbage.
A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
A small raft made of timber.
A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.