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Another word for balk

Verb

  1. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    allow

Another word for balk

Noun

  1. A large, oblong piece of wood or other material, used especially for construction

    2. See also:

    matter

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Another word for balk

Verb

  1. To refuse

    2. See also:

    refuse

    hesitate

  2. To frustrate

    3. See also:

    frustrate

    prevent

    frustrate

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Sentence Examples

  • A balk is a log hewn or sawn to a square section, and varying in size from I 1 to 18 in.

  • At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.

  • They might balk at getting on an airline flight flown by a computer and prefer having a pilot on board to take over if he "feels in his gut" that something is wrong (even if that feeling is the airport burrito he had for lunch).

  • "Upsets" are the result of some crushing force or violent shock to the balk or log.

  • Konitz was the first fortified post established in Prussia by Hermann Balk, who in 1230 had been commissioned as Landmeister, by the grand-master of the Teutonic order, to reduce the heathen Prussians.

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