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 leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
To form by uniting strands.
To break a strand of (a rope).
To run aground; to beach.
To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
A small brook or rivulet.
A passage for water; gutter.
A nucleotide chain.
A string.
A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
A street.
An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.