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- Dictionarybalk/bô(l)k/
verb
- 1. hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking: "any gardener will at first balk at enclosing the garden" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of a pitcher) make an illegal motion, penalized by an advance of the base runners: "the rookie balked and permitted Robinson to score"
noun
- 1. an illegal motion made by a pitcher that may deceive a base runner.
- 2. a roughly squared timber beam.
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