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Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called the balks..

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

Huer :: Huer (n.) One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker..

Gib :: Gib (v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i..

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..

Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside..

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring..

Balkingly :: Balkingly (adv.) In a manner to balk or frustrate.

Balker :: Balker (n.) One who, or that which balks..

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance..

Disappoint :: Disappoint (v. t.) To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil..

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To leave or make balks in.

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

Balkish :: Balkish (a.) Uneven; ridgy.

Baulk :: Baulk (n. & v.) See Balk.

Balking :: Balking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bal.

Conder :: Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

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