Balker

Quick meaning: Balker is a noun meaning Someone or something that balks; a naysayer.

Meaning

Someone or something that balks; a naysayer.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass.

Example Sentences

“Ye are caught, master wizard,” cried Fleetwood, laughing; “the balkers have marked their fish, and we hold you as our prize.[”]

The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish, called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish, who leapeth now and then aboue water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the Balker […]

For remedy whereof, and for the maintenance of the profitable trade of fishing, it is enacted that fishermen, balcors, huors, condors, guiders, etc., may enter lands near fishing-places to watch for and draw fish on shore, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

Word Forms

• balkers

Synonyms for balker

Depending on context, synonyms include conder, huer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include baulker, boggler, boggard, ballhooter, barracker, backtalker.

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