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baulk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | balk |
| Type of | surface area, expanse, area |
baulk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | balk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| Type of | difficulty |
| Has types | albatross, bind, diriment impediment, drag, millstone, obstacle, obstruction, straitjacket |
Examples of baulk
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McCabe is also more likely to baulk at a scheme for moral reasons than Prentiss.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Do rather baulk at the administration of our census by an American arms company.
From the guardian.co.uk
On 18, though, he's stretching over the baulk colours and he misses a long red.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Gallen admitted he would baulk at book-ending the Sharks pack any time soon.
From the canberratimes.com.au
He sent the white through baulk and back before it flicked a middle knuckle.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Players no doubt baulk at Townsville or Brisbane or Melbourne or Canberra or Sydney.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Astronomers will likely baulk at the scientific plausibility of the action.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Smaller operations, especially, baulk at the costs of a new digestion tank.
From the sciencedaily.com
They are often the students who would baulk at the idea of six years study.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Balk: the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"
- Resist: refuse to comply
- Hindrance: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- Rafter: one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- In baseball, a pitcher may commit a number of illegal motions or actions which constitute a balk. In games played under Official Baseball Rules, a balk results in a delayed dead ball, and the balk is ignored under specified circumstances. ...
- Baulking is a village and civil parish about southeast of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire.
- (Baulking) (a kind of pump fake a.k.a. hezie or hesitation shot) is effective when using an outside water shot. The player gets in the position to shoot but stops halfway through. This puts the defense on edge and partially immobilizes the goalie by wasting his blocking lunge. ...
- (Baulking) Refusing to start. See Jibbing.
- (baulking) South Africans are more used to the Afrikaans mik - pretending to throw but not throwing. This is wrong at a line-out or behind a ruck, maul or scrum.
