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1. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
   - hesitate, waver, waffle [N. Amer, informal], balk
    
2. Refuse to comply
   - resist, balk, jib

1. The area on a billiard table behind the balkline
   "a player with ball in hand must play from the baulk";
   - balk
    
2. Something that interferes with (or delays) action or progress
   - hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, check, handicap
    
3. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
   - rafter, balk

Derived forms: baulked, baulking, baulks

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

Part of: billiard table, pool table, snooker table

Encyclopedia: Baulk