Definition of "balker" []

• A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass. (noun)

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• "Enjoying the short ride to Grasshopper Level, Leah was mindful of how this horse had been a balker back when Dat first bought him from Uncle Noah Brenneman."
• ""Which, while they're still fast friends, was the last word ever passed between them on the subject of the funker and the balker.""
• "As the boy led her from the stable she came out with her ears laying back and her short tail switching; and I said to myself, "here will be a job breaking a kicker and balker.""