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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 539 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 " See also:system of See also:agriculture . 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 . From the other See also:original meaning, i.e . " 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) .

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