Balk (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
A balk
is an illegal motion by a baseball pitcher.
Balk or baulk may also refer to:
Balk
In baseball, a pitcher can commit a number of illegal motions or actions that constitute a balk. In games played under the Official Baseball Rules, a balk results in a dead ball or delayed dead ball. In certain other circumstances, a balk may be wholly or partially disregarded...
is an illegal motion by a baseball pitcher.
Balk or baulk may also refer to:
- Something left untouched, from in the ScotsScots languageScots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...
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.
- and are defined areas on various types of billiard table.
Places
- Balk, North YorkshireBalk, North YorkshireBalk is a hamlet and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 48. The village is just to the east of Thirsk, and combines with the adjacent parish of Bagby to elect a parish council.The moated grange at is a scheduled...
, England - Balk (Netherlands)Balk (Netherlands)Balk is a town in the Dutch province of Friesland. It is the main village of the municipality Gaasterlân-Sleat, and lies about 17 km southwest of the city of Sneek.Balk has about 3500 inhabitants....
, a village - Balk (Afghanistan)BalkhBalkh , was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan. Today it is a small town in the province of Balkh, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some south of the Amu Darya. It was one of the major cities of Khorasan...
, a city
People
- Abraham BalkAbraham Balk-College career:Balk, a 1947 graduate of the New York University School of Commerce , was a member of the Violets' fencing team...
, American fencer - Fairuza BalkFairuza BalkFairuza Alejandra Balk is an American film actress. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disney's Return to Oz...
(born 1974), American film actress - Hermann BalkHermann BalkHermann Balk , also known as Hermann von Balk or Hermann Balke, was a Knight-Brother of the Teutonic Order and its first Landmeister, or Provincial Master, in both Prussia and Livonia. From 1219 to 1227, he served as the Deutschmeister in the Order's Province of Alemannia...
, 13th century Master of the Teutonic and Livonian Orders