balk
verb (used without object)
to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed byat ).
balker
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a word derived from
balk.
Example Sentences
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When you got a balker to dispose of," said David gravely, "you can't alwus pick an' choose.
From David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott
"Which, while they're still fast friends, was the last word ever passed between them on the subject of the funker and the balker."
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson
A watcher of fishes, the same as balker, huer, and olpis.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
