Balk is valid Scrabble Word

Is balk a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is balk valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for BALK in dictionary:

VERB:

to refrain from proceeding, also BAUK, BAULK
hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
thwart or hinder (a plan or person)
prevent a person or animal from having (something)
miss or refuse (a chance or invitation)
(with reference to a horse) refuse or cause to refuse to go on
stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly
A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.
A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called \"the balks.\"
One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.
To leave or make balks in.
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation.
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
refuse to comply

NOUN:

a roughly squared timber beam
the area on a billiard table between the balk line and the bottom cushion, within which in some circumstances a ball is protected from a direct stroke.
an unlawful action made by a pitcher that may deceive a base runner.
a ridge left unploughed between furrows.
the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
roughly squared heavy timber beam

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to stop short and refuse to proceed

Words related to BALK

balked13 balker12 balkers13 balking14 balkingly19 balkings15 balks11 bauk10 baulk11 baulked14 baulker13 baulkers14 baulking15 baulks12

Words that contain BALK

balks11 balky14 balked13 balker12 balkers13 balkier13 balkily16 balking14 balkiest14 balkings15 balkline14 balkanise15 balkanize24 balkiness15 balkingly19 balklines15 balkanised17 balkanises16 balkanized26 balkanizes25 balkanising18 balkanizing27 balkinesses17 balkanisation19 balkanization28 balkanisations20 balkanizations29

How to use BALK in a sentence

If asked the courses, I balk after the recital of the soup.
Ducie challenged, and I was not then in the humour to balk him.
Ten to one, if the girl had talent and ambition, they would smother these things in her, balk her at every turn.
The mare, I might add, was never known to balk again.
Try as he would, he was unable to insert the tube properly, though in no way did I attempt to balk him.
Right here in Chicago is where the Transcontinental will try hardest to balk us.
Pontellier had saved appearances! Edna admired the skill of his maneuver, and avoided any occasion to balk his intentions.
If his offense had been against Egypt or the king or myself, I could balk him.
If driven straight at it, the chances are forty-eight out of fifty that he will balk or bolt.
It was an intolerable outrage that an ass should lecture a doctor, and balk him in his designs.

The leading concerts of the time did not balk at performing large vocal works, as they too often do to-day to the great detriment of the variety of their programmes.
When I saw her at the table I was going to balk about sitting there, then I changed my mind.
We balk even at really committing ourselves not to worry.
Even the skilful swimmer whose courage is not of the stoutest may balk at the peril.
When it became necessary to cause diversion he would balk.
But the pitch to which the dismal sights and sounds I have mentioned, and a hundred like them, had raised the fears of my following did much to balk my endeavours.
Bind it first with balk and band, And wind it then too with good wand.
At six, Mary went over the Sliding Rock without a quiver, and I have seen strong men balk at that feat.
Baffle, balk, bar, check, embarrass, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, retard, thwart.
He could be relied upon to balk every effort my mother might make to find me.
There was nothing now to balk his progress, he told himself.
It was nearly an hour before the herd came up, the others opening out, so as to give us a clear field, in case of a mill or balk.
Yet Prescott had, before this, chased the balk carriers, and had not objected.
With Anstey chasing the balk carriers, and all the other squads attending briskly to business, the pontoon was quickly built, so that a roadway extended from shore to shore.
A minor treasure ship was found to have been cleared of all her silver just in time to balk him.
Darrin did not balk, nor try to conceal anything, but he had a natural aversion to singing his own praises, and answered questions only sparingly at first.
Dan, watching his chum covertly, was briefly certain that Darrin was going to balk.
But at that time Balk and Hallvard betook themselves from the lands west over the sea, and went out to Iceland, for from thence came tales of land good to choose.
If you have an account with me, I will not balk you.
The daring cowboy had held out until the very last second, meaning that nothing should balk his design of enticing the enemy under their refuge, where Frank could get in his work.
If you try to balk our purpose, you must take the consequences.
We could not choose but balk those evil men of their will.
If you balk, or get twisted up in your own reins, or thrown off your seat, down goes your house.
A man with one leg to balk him, Big Jan? That called for a killing.

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