Balk (disambiguation)
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A balk is an illegal motion by a baseball pitcher.
Balk or baulk may also refer to:
- Something left untouched, from in the Scots term bauk; this led to the word's current meaning a hindrance or check. From this, some uses developed:
- A horse is said to baulk when it refuses its rider's instructions.
- A baulk is an evasive technique/manoeuvre in the sport of Australian rules football.
- To be baulked is the act of being slowed or stopped due to traffic, usually at an island in cycling time trials.
- Balk and baulk are defined areas on various types of billiard table.
Places
- Balk, North Yorkshire, England
- Balk, Netherlands, a village
- Balk, Afghanistan, a city
People
- Fairuza Balk (born 1974), American film actress
- Hermann Balk, 13th century Master of the Teutonic and Livonian Orders
- Jordi Balk, Dutch footballer