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• a variation of balk.

baulk

British  

/ bɔːk, bɔːlk /

noun

1. Also (US): balk.  billiards

   1. the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion

   2. (in baulk-line games) one of the spaces between the cushions and the baulk lines

   3. inside one of these spaces

2. archaeol a strip of earth left between excavation trenches for the study of the complete stratigraphy of a site

3. croquet either of two lines ( A baulk and B baulk ) at diagonally opposite ends of the court, from which the ball is struck into play

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verb

1. a variant spelling of balk

Example Sentences

Despite hand-wringing over the risk that travellers will baulk at paying higher fares, the ongoing war did not appear to ruffle feathers at the International Air Transport Association's annual conference in Rio, which ends Monday.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

While some may baulk at the idea of more politicians, they are currently fashionable.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024

Many players in her situation would baulk at thinking of a grand final against Williams as just “another match”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2018

The "save more tomorrow" approach pioneered in the United States saw employees automatically signed up to pay into a pension, but starting with very small contributions to avoid loss-aversion that could make them baulk.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2017

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton