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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

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baulk

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

Quite a few prospective members baulk at the ID check and don't proceed onto the site.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

It’s enough to make even the most ardent oenophile baulk, but a rambling four-day trip is the perfect way to get a sense of what makes each region special.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2020

He would hate asking people for money; he would baulk at saying contradictory things to different audiences; if an opponent made a good point in a debate, he would say so.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2018

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

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