Baulk

Quick meaning: Baulk is a noun meaning (British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk.

Meaning

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk.

Example Sentences

What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness?

Colleagues and confidants describe Yaccarino as a conservative. But when I ask about her personal politics, she baulks.

As he talked, slowly, quietly, I had the impression that it must surely be an accident that had happened, but that his mind, unhinged by tragedy, baulked at Anna’s death.

'And am I to plunge a harpoon into that beast!' 'That's your privilege, my son,' said Malone, 'and, sad to relate, unless I give it a miss in baulk, I shall have to be at your side when you do it.'

Word Forms

• baulks
• baulking
• baulked

Synonyms for baulk

Depending on context, synonyms include resist, jib, balk, rafter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include balk, rafter, jib, resist, scarper, overleap.

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