BAULK, or BALK (a word

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• COMMON

common to

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• LANGUAGES

languages, meaning a

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• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

ridge,

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• PARTITION

partition, or

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• BEAM
• BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

beam)  , the ridge left unploughed between furrows or ploughed fields; also the uncultivated. strip of land used as a boundary in the " open-field " system of agriculture . From the meaning of something left untouched comes that of a hindrance or check, so of a horse stopping short of an obstacle, of the " baulk-line " in billiards, or of the`deceptive motion of the pitcher in baseball . From the other original meaning, i.e . " beam," comes the use of the word for the cross or tie-beam of a roof, or for a large log of timber sawn'to a one or one and a half foot square section (see JoltdERY) .