1) Act the mule 2) Area 3) Baseball no-no 4) Baulk 5) Be hesitant 6) Be uncooperative 7) Commit a no-no on the mound 8) Diamond slip-up 9) Display obstinacy 10) Expanse 11) Exclusively Anglo word 12) Exclusively Saxon word 13) Flinch 14) Hesitate 15) Illegal diamond delivery 16) Illegal motion by a pitcher
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1) Albatross 2) Baulk 3) Bind 4) Demur 5) Disappointment 6) Hindrance 7) Impediment 8) Millstone 9) Obstacle 10) Rafter 11) Straitjacket
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In baseball, a pitcher can commit a number of illegal motions or actions that constitute a balk. Most of these violations involve a pitcher pretending to pitch when he has no intention of doing so. In games played under the Official Baseball Rules, a balk results in a dead ball or delayed dead ball. In certain other circumstances, a balk may be wh...
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• (v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. • (v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. • (v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called `the balks.` • (v...
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1) An incomplete approach in which the bowler does not deliver the ball; 2) to interfere or cause another bowler to stop his approach or not complete it in his normal fashion.
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(from the article `balkline billiards`) ...either 14 or 18 in (36 or 46 cm) away from them. The object of the games is to score caroms by driving a cue ball against both object balls. The ...
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(from the article `baseball`) ...lead or even `pick off` the runner (catch him off base) by making throws over to the runner`s base. The pitcher attempting to pick off a runner ... ...balls foul (beyond the foul lines) or fair (or within the foul lines); the other three call runners safe or out at the first three bases. Any .....
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To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring. ... Origin: Prob. From D. Balken to bray, bawl. ... 1. To leave or make balks in. ... 2. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. 'Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.' (Shak) ... 3. To o...
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Balk (bak)
noun [ Anglo-Saxon
balca beam, ridge; akin to Icelandic
bālkr partition,
bjālki beam, Old Saxon
balko , German
balken ; confer Gael.
balc ridge of earth between two furrows. Confer
Balcony ,
Balk ,
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Balk intransitive verb 1. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [ Obsolete] « In strifeful terms with him to
balk .
Spenser. »
2. To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse
balks . »...
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Balk transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Balked (bakt);
present participle & verbal noun Balking .] [ From
Balk a beam; orig. to put a balk or beam in one's way, in order to stop or hinder. Confer , for sense 2, Anglo-Saxo...
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To refuse or cease to move forward
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obstacle purposely to get on the way ofÂ
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n] - the area on a billiard table behind the balkline 2. [n] - an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
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Balks occur when pitchers make an illegal pitching motion (under the baseball rules) with a base runner(s) on base. These take place when pitchers have to commit to throwing the ball home as a result of a movement, however big it may have been. This rule was put into place to prevent pitchers from deceiving a base runner(s).
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Interfering to stop or mess up some other bowler’s normal actions.
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It takes place a pitcher makes an illicit motion on the mound, which the umpire considers to be deceitful to the runner(s). Consequently, any men on base are given the next base, and the pitch is overshoot for a dead ball.
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Any pitching motion that is against the baseball rules, resulting in any runners on base advancing one base.
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noun an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
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Any deceptive movement that disconcerts an opponent before or during the service; often called a 'feint.'
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[SAT terms] refuse to comply
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