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balking 音标拼音: [b'ɔkɪŋ] 慢行 慢行 balking adj 1: stopping short and refusing to go on; " a balking"; " a balky mule"; " a balky customer" [ synonym: { balking}, { balky}] Balk \ Balk\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Balked} ( b[ add] kt); p. pr. & vb. n. { Balking}.] [ From { Balk} a beam; orig. to put a balk or beam in one' s way, in order to stop or hinder. Cf., for sense 2, AS. on balcan legan to lay in heaps.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To leave or make balks in. [ Obs.] -- Gower. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk' d in their own blood did Sir Walter see. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 4. To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [ Obs. or Obsolescent] [ 1913 Webster] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the inns. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. -- Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. -- Drayton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart; as, to balk expectation. [ 1913 Webster] They shall not balk my entrance. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster]
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