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 whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
To have a superabundance of valuable things.
To rain lightly.
To be wet, to be soaked.
To fall one drop at a time.
To leak slowly.
To let fall in drops.
A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
A drop of a liquid.
A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.