BAULK, or BALK (a word common to Teut...
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V03,
Page 539
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:BAULK, or BALK (a word See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, meaning a See also:ridge, See also:partition, or See also:beam)
, the See also:ridge See also:left unploughed between furrows or ploughed See also:fields; also the uncultivated. See also:strip of See also:land used as a boundary in the " open-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field " See also:system of See also:agriculture
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From the meaning of something left untouched comes that of a hindrance or check, so of a See also:horse stopping See also:short of an obstacle, of the " See also:baulk-See also:line " in See also:billiards, or of the`deceptive See also:motion of the See also:pitcher in baseball
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From the other See also:original meaning, i.e
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" See also:beam," comes the use of the word for the See also:cross or tie-beam of a roof, or for a large See also:log of See also:timber sawn'to a one or one and a See also:half See also:foot square See also:section (see JoltdERY)
.
End of Article: BAULK, or BALK (a word common to Teutonic languages, meaning a ridge, partition, or beam)
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