Definition of "balks" [balks]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of balk. (verb)

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• "He called the balks "minor league stuff" he "shouldn't be doing here.""
• "[8] The balks are the banks dividing the fields of different owners or crops."
• "The soil should be broken deep and well -- all of the land should be broken, leaving no "balks" or unbroken places."