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 depart from or leave (a place or situation).
To depart from life; to die.
To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
To give up the lead.
To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
The act of departing from life; death.
The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.