Definitions
1.verbTo pass over or by.
2.verbTo omit, miss or overlook by chance.
3.verbTo miss intentionally; to avoid.
4.verbTo stop, check, block.
5.verbTo stop short and refuse to go on."The horse balked."
6.verbTo refuse suddenly.
7.verbTo disappoint; to frustrate."to balk expectation"
8.verbTo engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
9.verbTo leave or make balks in.
10.verbTo leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
11.verbTo indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
12.nounA frustration or disappointment; a check.