To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
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 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 bring (something) into opposition with something else.
To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
A mine.
A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
The bottom part of something.
Armpit.
A mosh pit.
Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
A bed.
A luggage hold.
A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
A hole in the ground.
The emergency department.
The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
A pit bull terrier.
A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
A trading pit.
A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
The center of the line.
Only used in the pits.
The grave, underworld or Hell.
The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.