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    balk
    /bɔː(l)k/

    verb

    • 1. hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking: "he balked at such a drastic solution" Similar eschewresistrefuse tobe unwilling toOpposite accept

    noun

    • 1. a roughly squared timber beam: "a balk of timber"
    • 2. 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.

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