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Definition
to refuse to comply
- Here was Daddy, balked, not by a machine (he had talent and patience for machines), but by one of us, or by some trivial circumstance.p. 306.1
- When we go along, she balks.p. 60.9
There are no more uses of "balk" in A Thousand Acres.
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