balk vs have

balk

verb
  • To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

have

verb
  • To trick, to deceive. 

  • To be afflicted with, suffer from. 

  • To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case. 

  • To believe, buy, be taken in by. 

  • To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of. 

  • To obtain. 

  • To include as a part, ingredient, or feature. 

  • See have to. 

  • To defeat in a fight; take. 

  • To accept as a romantic partner. 

  • To undertake or perform (an action or activity). 

  • To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) 

  • Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. 

  • To cause to, by a command, request or invitation. 

  • To cause to be. 

  • To be able to speak (a language). 

  • To hold, as something at someone's disposal. 

  • Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.) 

  • To experience, go through, undergo. 

  • To allow; to tolerate. 

  • To depict as being. 

  • To inflict punishment or retribution on. 

  • To make an observation of (a bird species). 

  • To possess, own. 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse with. 

  • To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation. 

  • To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink). 

  • Used in forming the perfect aspect. 

  • To host someone; to take in as a guest. 

  • To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in. 

  • To give birth to. 

noun
  • One who has some (contextually specified) thing. 

  • A wealthy or privileged person. 

  • A fraud or deception; something misleading. 

How often have the words balk and have occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )