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 lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
To dance.
To threaten to overthrow.
To disturb emotionally; to shock.
To be agitated; to lose firmness.
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
To shake hands.
To move from side to side.
To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
A milkshake.
A fissure in rock or earth.
A shook of staves and headings.
A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
A shock or disturbance.
In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
A thin shingle.