baulk
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
See balk
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
baulk (plural baulks)
- (Britain) Alternative spelling of balk
- (Britain) In billiards, 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.
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VerbEdit
baulk (third-person singular simple present baulks, present participle baulking, simple past and past participle baulked)
- (Britain) Alternative spelling of balk
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:
- [...] What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness? [...]
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII: