2. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [Obs.]
Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.
--Shak.
3. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [Obs.]
4. To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to
let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent]
By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked
the ?nns. --Evelyn.
Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
--Bp. Hall.
Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he
meeteth. --Drayton.
5. To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to
?hwart; as, to balk expectation.
They shall not balk my entrance. --Byron.