balked
verb
Meaning
- To pass over or by.
- To omit, miss or overlook by chance.
- To miss intentionally; to avoid.
- To stop, check, block.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To refuse suddenly.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
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