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balk

English

  1. 🔊 an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
  2. 🔊 the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
    “a player with ball in hand must play from the balk”
  3. 🔊 one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
  4. 🔊 something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  5. 🔊 refuse to comply

Spanish

  1. 🔊 armar to balk

Similar words

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