Baulk vs. Balk: What's the Difference?

Variant of balk.

To stop short and refuse to go on

(British spelling) balk

To refuse obstinately or abruptly

(British spelling) balk

(Sports) To make an incomplete or misleading motion.

The area on a billiard table behind the balkline;

(Baseball) To make an illegal motion before pitching, allowing one or more base runners to advance one base.

Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

To check or thwart by or as if by an obstacle.

One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

(Archaic) To let go by; miss.

Refuse to comply

A hindrance, check, or defeat.

(Sports) An incomplete or misleading motion, especially an illegal move made by a baseball pitcher.

(Games) One of the spaces between the cushion and the balk line on a billiard table.

An unplowed strip of land.

A ridge between furrows.

A wooden beam or rafter.

(agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.

(archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.

Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

A sudden and obstinate stop.

(obsolete) An omission.

(sports) A deceptive motion.

(baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.

(badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.

(billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.

(snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.

(fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.

(archaic) To pass over or by.

To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.

(obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.

To stop, check, block.

To stop short and refuse to go on.

To refuse suddenly.

To disappoint; to frustrate.

To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

To leave or make balks in.

To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.

To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."

One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball. It is illegal and is penalized by allowing the runners on base to advance one base.

To leave or make balks in.

To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart; as, to balk expectation.

To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

To commit a balk{6}; - of a pitcher.

To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

The area on a billiard table behind the balkline;

Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

An illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

Refuse to comply