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1. Refuse to comply
   - resist, baulk [Brit], jib
    
2. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
   - hesitate, waver, waffle, baulk [Brit]

1. The area on a billiard table behind the balkline
   "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"
   - baulk [Brit]
    
2. Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
   - hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, baulk [Brit], check, handicap
    
3. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
   - rafter, baulk [Brit]
    
4. An illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

Derived forms: balking, balks, balked

See also: balker [N. Amer], balky

Type of: area, beam, delivery, difficulty, disobey, expanse, pitch, surface area

Part of: billiard table, pool table, snooker table

Encyclopedia: Balk, Gaasterlan-Sleat Balk Balk, North Yorkshire Balk, Gaasterlân-Sleat