Balk

Definition: Balk

Balk

Noun

1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.

2. An illegal pitching motion while runners are on base.

Verb

1. Refuse to comply.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "balk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Literature

Military

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Balk

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Disappointment

Noun: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Crosswords: Balk

Afrikaan (beam, girder), Dutch (beam, girder), Manx (miss in ploughing), Swedish (beam, code, girder, section).

Economic History

Vietnam

Because their resources typically are limited, the local partner may balk at major strategic moves such as recapitalization or changes to the business plan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "balk": balk at ♦ balk at a difficulty ♦ balk at doing smth. ♦ balk at the work ♦ Balk line. Additional references.

Albanian

zhgënjim (anticlimax, bummer, chagrin, disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment, frustration), zhgënjej (chagrin, delude, disappoint, disillusion), tra (axletree, baulk, joist, stock, timber), rrip toke i papunuar (baulk), pengoj (arrest, baffle, baulk, block, clog, cross, cumber, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, set back, shut in, stumble, trammel, traverse, trouble), pengesë (bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), ndaloj (arrest, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold), gafë (baulk, bloomer, blunder, Boner, faux pas, gaffe, gross fault, howler, slip), gabim (baulk, boob, delinquency, delusion, error, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, slip up, trip), faull (baulk, fault, foul, hack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فشل (be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏قطعة أرض مستطيلة تترك بدون حراسة, ‏غلطة (error, fault, inaccuracy, mistake, stumble, trip), ‏توقف فجأة (clap, cut out, layover, pull up, short, stall), ‏عجز اللاعب عن حركة بدأها, ‏عجز (buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏عاق (baffle, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏عائق (bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), ‏صد (alienation, baffle, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), ‏خطأ (error, fault, flaw, inaccuracy, misconception, miss, mistake, stumble), ‏أحبط (anticipate, block, check, damp, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scotch, scuttle, torpedo), ‏أضاع (dawdle, lose, miscarry, mislay, slattern, stray), ‏رافدة (joist, rafter, transom). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сепвам (startle, take aback), спънка (backset, baulk, countercheck, cramp, difficulty, drawback, hindrance, hitch, hobble, impediment, interference, interruption, kink, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, setback, shoal, stumbling block), синор (headland, landmark, party line), ритам (boot, fling, kick, lash, recoil, toe), греда (baulk, beam, spar, tie, timber), въже на рибарска мрежа, преча (baulk, collar, detain, hinder, interfere, interrupt, intrude, put off), плашлив ком, ивица между две бразди (baulk, rib), изпортвам (boss, bungle, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble), дърпам се (falter, hang back, shy). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�埂 (RAND). (various references)

Czech

zaleknout se (recoil), vzpínat se (curvet, jib, prance, rear up), trám (beam, girder, joist, raft, spar, strut, timber), překážka (bar, barrier, blockage, fence, hamper, hazard, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, resistance, restriction, roadblock, rub, snag, trig), couvnout (blench, flinch). (various references)

Danish

bjaelke (baulk, bearer, float, float lever, floater, longeron, spar), bjælke (beam, girder), markskel (boundary strip), graenseskel (boundary strip). (various references)

Dutch

balk (beam, girder), vierkant bekapt of bezaagd hout (baulk), rand (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, margin, outskirts, periphery, rand, rim). (various references)

Farsi 

مایه ء لغزش , مانع (Bar, Barricade, Brake, Crimp, Dike, Drawback, Embargo, Encumbrance, Handicap, Hedge, Hinder, Hindrance, Hitch, Hurdle, Impediment, Let, Lock, Obstacle, Preventive, Repellent, Setback, Shackle, Snag, Stay), مرز (Border, Bound, Boundary, Mark, Outskirt, Precinct, Rand, Ridge), زیرش زدن , زمین شخم نشده , طفره رفتن از (Avoid), امتناع ورزیدن , ردکردن (Confute, Controvert, Decline, Deny, Disallow, Disapprove, Disavow, Disclaim, Disown, Disprove, Gainsay, Ignore, Impugn, Overrule, Rebuff, Rebut, Refuse, Refute, Rejcet, Repel, Repudiate, Veto). (various references)

Finnish

tukki (beam, log, stock), piennar (edge), pelkka (baulk, cant), päiste (boundary strip, headland, turn space), hirsi (beam, girder, log). (various references)

French

bille (ball, baulk), entraver (baffle, set back), cloison (baffle, balic, baulk), cloisonnement (balic, baulk), contrecarrer (baulk), déjouent, déjouer, déjouez, équarri de grande section transversale (baulk), entrave, terre non labourée (baulk), hésiter (baulk), lisière d'un champ, premier débit (baulk), reculer (back, back away, baulk, bush back, give back, move back, rein back, stand back, step back, turn back, walk back, walk backwards), regimber, s'arrêter (baulk), se dérober (back down), solive (baulk), déjouons. (various references)

German

Hindernis (bar, barrier, check, fence, handicap, hazard, hindrance, hump, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction). (various references)

Greek 

σταματώ (arrest, belay, cease, check, cheese, come to a halt, detain, draw up, give over, grind to a halt, grind to a standstill, halt, hang on, knock off, pause, pull up, put pay to, quit, roll to a halt, stall, stay, stop, trig, waste), ματαιώνω (abort, call off, cancel, circumvent, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, thwart), παρεμποδίζω (block, encumber, hamper, hobble, inhibit, intercept, trammel), ενδιάμεσον χέρσον (balic, baulk, box-ridge, tie-ridge), αρνούμαι να προχωρήσω, δειλιάζω (be frightened, blench, doggle, flinch, quail, shrink), � ρώτη επέμβαση πρώτη κοπή (baulk). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעצור (baulk, block, brake, check, curb, hindrance, inhibition, jam, obstacle, rein, restraint, stopper, trammel), מכשול (bar, baulk, drawback, hindrance, hitch, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, pitfall, snag, stumbling block), מ� יע�" (baulk, hindrance, impediment, obstacle, prevention, prophylaxis, refusal, stop), לשים מכשול (baulk, hamper, obstruct), לסכל (baffle, baulk, circumvent, foil, frustrate, make foolish, stultify, thwart), לסרב ל�"תק�"ם (baulk). (various references)

Hungarian

akadály (bar, barrier, blockage, check, cumber, difficulty, drag, drawback, handicap, hang fire, hindrance, hitch, hobble, hurdle, impediment, leap, let, lion in the path, lion in the way, malfunction, objection, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, ring fence, snag, stumbling block, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, throw back, trammel, traverse), mestergerenda (baulk, binder, girder, principal), keresztet tartó pózna, bakhát (open furrow, ridge, rig), bogárhát (camber, open furrow), csalódás (deception, delusion, disappointment, disillusionment, hang-up, letdown, setback, suck), emelőrúd (crow, crow-bar, lever, pole, pry, purchase), födémgerenda (binding joist, joist, main joist, summer, summer-tree), fennakadás (hang, hitch, stoppage), gerenda (baulk, beam, girder, joist, lumber, piece of timber, spar, spile, tree), gyámfa (prop, puncheon, shore, stave, strut, upright, upright pole), háló felinja, épületgerenda, kötőgerenda (binding joist, joist, main joist, tie), zökkenő (hitch), kiábrándulás (disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusioning, disillusionment, jolt), kiindulási állás, kiindulási helyzet (attack position), megműveletlen földsáv, mezsgye (baulk, bound, confine, mere), nagy gerenda, nehézség (crux, difficulty, hardness, hardship, hitch, inconvenience, knot, ponderosity, ponderousness, puzzle, snag, stress, stumbling block, stumbling-block, traverse), támfa (bearer, leg, tree), vakbarázda (skip), halászhálókat összekötő kötél. (various references)

Indonesian

balok (beam, block, briquet, chump, cross bar), menghalang-halangi (debar, trammel, vex). (various references)

Italian

bordonale (baulk), blocco da rifenditura (baulk), trave (beam, girder, joist, rafter, timber), scoraggiarsi (quail), ostacolo (check, clog, difficulty, drag, drawback, fence, handicap, hindrance, hitch, holdback, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, setback, snag, stumbling block, wattle), interruzione di solco a girapoggio (balic, baulk, box-ridge, tie-ridge), evitare (avert, avoid, avoid each other, avoidance, decline, elude, escape, evade, flee, help, prevent, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid), ciglione (boundary strip), ciglio (brink, edge, eyelash, eyelashes, lash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ボーア磁子 (bauxite, boatswain, Boeing, Bohr magneton, bow, bow collar, bowing, boy, boy friend, boy hunt, Boy Scouts, boy soprano, boyish, vocal, vocal solo, vocalist, vogue), 反則 (default, foul play, irregularity, transgression). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ボーク , は�"そく (default, foul play, irregularity, sales promotion, transgression, turning over in bed). (various references)

Korean 

교골. (various references)

Manx

ymmyr vane, immyr vane, dreeym ingagh, bac (disability, disqualification, drawback, handicap, moratorium, objection, obstacle, pull back, snag, stay, trap). (various references)

Pig Latin

alkbay.(various references)

Portuguese

barrote (baulk, beam, girder, joist, log, rafter, stud, timber). (various references)

Romanian

barã (bar, gate, ingot, joist, pig, stick, strut), brazdã (baulk, bed, clod, furrow, list, rut, swath, trace, track, turf, wake), grãmãdi (baulk), contracara (baulk, counter, counteract, countervail, counterwork, cross, thwart), decepţie (disappointment, sell, set back), decepţiona (disappoint, let down), dejuca (baffle, baulk, counterwork, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, foil, frustrate, shatter, thwart), deziluzie (baulk, disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment), evita (avoid, baulk, berth, by pass, clear, dodge, elide, elude, escape, eschew, evade, finesse, fly, forbear, keep from, Parry, pass off, put off, save, shun, spare), împiedica (arrest, back, baulk, block, brake, check, circumvent, clog, delay, detain, deter, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, help, hinder, hitch, hobble, hold, hopple, impede, inhibit, intercept, lock, obstruct, prevent, put on the brakes, restrain, shackle, shut out, snag, stay, stop, trammel, withhold), frustra, travers, grindã (baulk, beam, girder, joist, log, timber), hat (baulk, snap), omite (baulk, forget, jump, leave, neglect, omit, overlook, pretermit, retrench), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), piedicã (bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), pierde (baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, ruin, spill, throw away, waste), rãzor (bed), se opune (antagonize, baulk, contravene, counter, oppose, repugn, stand, take exception to, traverse), se sustrage (abscond, absent oneself from, back, baulk, evade, shrink away, skulk, wriggle), fi nãrav (baulk). (various references)

Russian 

упрямиться (baulk, be obstinate, persist), окантованное бревно, задерживать (arrest, baulk, block, defer, delay, delayed, detain, hold over, impede, keep, keep down, retard, stall, stop, suspends), бревно (baulk, beam, girder, log), балка (baulk, beam, girder, jig, ledger, raft, truss), препятствовать (be in the road, clog, estop, get in smb.'s road, hamper, hinder, impede, inhibit, interrupt, keep away, militate, preclude from, prohibit, short circuit), препятствие (barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, discouragement, disincentive, drawback, encumbrance, hedge, holdback, hurdle, impediment, leap, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pull back, setback, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sprečiti (arrest, avert, baulk, debar, disenable, forestall, head off, hinder, impeach, impede, inhibit, keep from, preclude, prevent, scotch), sprečavanje (baulk, control, prevention), prepreka (ado, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Spanish

negarse (baulk, decline, walk away), caballón (baulk, ridge), cachón (baulk), desliz (lapse, misstep, slip, trip), entresurco (balic, baulk, box-ridge, cast-off unploughed strip, dead furrow, earth furrow, finish, open furrow, sole furrow, tie-ridge), evitar (avert, avoid, baulk, bypass, circumvent, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, guard against, keep away, obviate, preclude, prevent, provide, save, shirk, shut out, sidestep, spare, stave off, ward off), frustrar (baffle, baulk, blight, defeat, foil, frustrate, mock, scotch, scupper, thwart, to foil), cabaña (baulk, cabana, cabin, cottage, hootch, hovel, hut), lindero (abutment, party line, purlieu), viga de gran sección transversal (baulk), obstáculo (bar, barrier, baulk, block, blockage, cave, cramps, cumber, drag, handicap, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, let, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, preventer, pullback, trouble, vapor barrier), obstaculizar (baulk, block), perder (baulk, blunder away, drop, forfeit, have away, idle away, loiter away, lose, lose out, mislay, misplace, miss, misspend, muff, pip, ruin, shed, unmeet, waste), plantarse (baulk, jib, refuse, stick), relinga superior (baulk), viga (arbor, baulk, beam, crossbeam, girder, joist, rafter, timber), linde (border, boundary, frontier, limit). (various references)

Swedish

hindra (bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, cumber, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hamstring, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, put back, short circuit, snag, stay, stymie, trammel, traverse), bjälke (beam, girder, log). (various references)

Thai

การหยุ�"ยั้ง, หยุ�"อย่างกระทันหัน, ความผิ�"หวัง, ขั�"ขวาง (bar, deter, forbid, hinder, rule out, stymie, stymy, suffocate, thwart). (various references)

Turkish

başarısızlık (abortion, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, bust, collapse, cropper, defeat, dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout), sürülmemiş kısım, kiriş (baulk, beam, bowstring, catgut, chord, girder, gut, joist, ligament, rafter, rib, sinew, span, string, stringcourse, Stringer, tendinous, tendon, tie, tie beam, timber, traverse, wire), ket (baulk, clog, obstacle), kaçınmak (abstain, avoid, baulk, beg, beware, chicken out, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, flee, flee from, flinch, forbear, funk, get out of, keep clear of, refrain, refuse, shirk, short circuit, shun, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, steer clear of, Stow), inatla yürümemek (baulk), inat etmek (balk at, baulk, be obstinate, persist, recalcitrate, stickle), hata (baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), engellemek (bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, cumber, dam, dam up, defeat, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, restrain, save, shut out, snag, stem, stymie, surety, trammel), engel olmak (baffle, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, put off, scotch, shackle, thwart), engel (bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel), duraksamak (baulk, come to a stop, dither, falter, halt, hang back, hesitate, hobble, hover, pause, vibrate, waver), ayak diremek (balk at, baulk, insist, jib, put one's foot down, refuse, shuffle, shuffle one's feet). (various references)

Ukrainian

незорана смуга землі, перешкоджати (baffle, bar, barrier in, baulk, block, check, clog, counteract, cumber, debar, discourage, forbid, handicap, impede, inhibit, militate, prevent, set back, tie up, trammel), помилка (aberration, bloomer, bungle, delusion, error, failing, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, mistake, sin, slip, solecism, stumble, trip), поразка (beating, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, knockout, licking, reverse, whipping, whopping), пропускати (drop out, leave out, let by, let through, miss out, omit, outlet, overjump, overleap, overlook, pass over, pass through, skip, waste), прогалина (blank, chasm, gap, non-sequence, vacuum, void), підпірка (backing, chock, counterfort, pit prop, post, puncheon, shore, stanchion, trellis, upholder), балка (beam, bowl, girder, joist), завада (clog, disadvantage, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, pullback), заважати (baffle, clog, cut across, embar, embarrass, empeach, hinder, impeach, incommode, interfere, obscure, obstruct, preclude, prohibit), затримка (arrest, backing, back-set, check, delay, hold back, impediment, objection, retardment, retention, setback, stay, throw back), затримувати (apprehend, arrest, dam, defer, delay, deport, detain, impede, impound, intern, nip, pull back, withhold), межа (abutment, barrier, border, bound, brink, butt, ceiling, circumference, circumscription, delimitation, frontier, limit, pale, precinct, side-land, tiptop, ultimate, verge), перешкода (back-set, baffle, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall), незавершений удар, ухилятися (avoid, back out, blench, crawfish, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, evade, flunk, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle), обминати, обходити (by pass, circumambulate, compass, skirt), огріх (error), відкидати (abnegate, baffle, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), горище (cockloft, garret, loft), колода (bee-tree, billet, block, chuck, chump, clump, juggle, rafter, timber), коромисло (rocker, swipe, yoke), раптом змініти рішення, розчарування (baffle, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, frustration, sell), ігнорувати (brush aside, defy, disregard, dissemble, eliminate, ignore, neglect, overjump, overleap, overlook), упиратися (abut, recalcitrate), упущення (delinquency, lapse, omission), насипати в купи. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật chướng ngại (baulk, impedient, obstacle), cơ hội tốt (baulk). (various references)

Welsh

balcio, balc (fault, mistake), ystyffylu, siomi (baffle, belie, deceive, disappoint, thwart), siom (disappointment), sinach (skinflint, waste ground), seithugio (frustrate, thwart), llesteirio (hinder, impede). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "balk": balkanization, balkanizations, balkanize, balkanized, balkanizes, balkanizing, balked, balker, balkers, balkier, balkiest, balkily, balkiness, balkinesses, balking, balkline, balklines, balks, balky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Balk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alk, Baak, baik, bak, balak, Balaki, balb, balck, Balf, balg, balh, bali, Balkh, Balkhi, balki, ballr, balp, balr, balx, Balz, Belk, Bhaluk, Bilek, bilko, bla, blac, Blak, blau, blav, bolk, buld, buluk, Dalk, jalk, Kalk, valk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alb, bal, kab, lab.

-2 letters: ab, al, ba, ka, la.

+1 letter: balks, balky, baulk, black, blank, bleak, kibla.

+2 letters: balked, balker, baulks, baulky, blacks, blanks, bleaks, bytalk, kabala, keblah, kiblah, kiblas.

+3 letters: backlit, backlog, baklava, baklawa, balkers, balkier, balkily, balking, bashlyk, batlike, baulked, bechalk, becloak, blacked, blacken, blacker, blackly, blanked, blanker, blanket, blankly, blaubok, bleaker, bleakly, bulkage, bulwark, bytalks, kabalas, kabbala, kalimba, keblahs, kiblahs, kilobar, kolbasi, lambkin, lawbook, likable, makable, skiable, takable.