balk

1. A hindrance, check, or defeat.

2. A ridge between furrows.

3. A wooden beam or rafter.

4. An unplowed strip of land.

5. Games One of the spaces between the cushion and the balk line on a billiard table.

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1. To pass over or by.

2. To check or stop by or as if by an obstacle.

3. To stop short and refuse to proceed.

4. To refuse abruptly.

5. To commit a balk in sports.

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1. Baseball To make an illegal motion before pitching, allowing one or more base runners to advance one base.

2. Sports To make an incomplete or misleading motion.

3. To refuse obstinately or abruptly: She balked at the very idea of compromise.

4. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump.

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1. Archaic To let go by; miss.

2. To check or thwart by or as if by an obstacle.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
balk	10	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ab	4
al	2
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ka	6
la	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
alb	5
bal	5
kab	9
lab	5

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
balk	10