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Definition

to refuse to comply

Less common specialized meanings:

Baseball:  an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

Equestrian:  when a horse refuses to obey a rider — especially when stopping in front of a jump

Billiards:  an area of the billiard table from which opening shots with the cue ball are made

Bowling:  when a bowler stops in mid-swing without releasing the ball

Badminton:  any deceptive movement that disconcerts an opponent before or during the service

Archeology:  a side wall of an excavated partition of earth left standing between adjoining excavation units

Agriculture:  a strip of ground left unplowed as a boundary line between two plowed portions

Architecture:  one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

Carpentry:  a thick piece of unfinished wood

Our teacher balked at the suggestion of an open-book test.

The horse balked at the jump.
She balked at the gate, and I had to hit her hard with the stick a few times to move her forward.
Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die

balked = refused to comply

Papi wanted a negocio of his own, that was his dream, but he balked at starting at the bottom, selling hot dogs.
Junot Diaz -- Drown

balked = refused to comply

Hernandez balked, and the officers lowered their price.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

balked = refused to comply

The animals balked at such places, and the camel drivers were forced to dismount and unburden their charges.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

balked = refused to comply

At six, Mary went over the Sliding Rock without a quiver, and I have seen strong men balk at that feat.
London, Jack -- South Sea Tales
And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
I've had a dozen balk at that big jump.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
It is the spirit of my noble- minded Cora that leads them, Duncan', he said, 'and I will not balk it.
Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Last of The Mohicans
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.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Edna admired the skill of his maneuver, and avoided any occasion to balk his intentions.
Chopin, Kate -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
It's all dead easy if Rosy don't balk when the flag drops.
Henry, O. -- The Four Million
If you interfere to balk his vengeance, you should remember there is one way to shut your testimony out; and that is to put you in the dock.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Kidnapped
' "Dearest," said Aslan very gently, "you and your brother will never come balk to Narnia."
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
If you interfere to balk his vengeance, you should remember there is one way to shut your testimony out; and that is to put you in the dock.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
The wind balked my every effort, ripping the canvas out of my hands and in an instant undoing what I had gained by ten minutes of severest struggle.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
The vyes hesitated, talons twitching as they squinted and balked at this unexpected turn.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
I would have collected $140,000, never have seen Star a second time— Or would Her Wisdom have been balked?
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

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