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BAULK, or BALK (a word common to Teutonic languages, meaning a ridge, partition, or beam)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 539 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAULK, or BALK (a word common to Teutonic languages, meaning a ridge, partition, or beam) , the
ridge
  left unploughed between furrows or ploughed fields; also the uncultivated. strip of
land
  used as a boundary in the " open-field "
system
  of
agriculture
 . From the meaning of something left untouched comes that of a hindrance or check, so of a
horse
  stopping short of an obstacle, of the "
baulk
 -line " in billiards, or of the`deceptive motion of the
pitcher
  in baseball. From the other
original
  meaning, i.e. " beam," comes the use of the word for the
cross
  or tie-beam of a roof, or for a large log of timber sawn'to a one or one and a half foot square
section
  (see JoltdERY).


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