balk
bawk
- n the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
a player with ball in hand must play from the balk - n something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- n one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- n an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- v refuse to comply
- Even if members of the security forces may balk at being ordered to beat up or kill protesting students, the "Hizbollahis," as the militants .
- Forty years later, consumers still balk at the high priceand at losing the ability to take calls in their underwear.
- Balk is current nomenclature of two sports.