balker

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Noun

HYPHEN

balk=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun balker has 1 sense

balker(n = noun.person) baulker, noncompliant - a person who refuses to comply;

is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

has particulars: negativist

Derived form verb balk₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

balker, n. [See 2d Balk.].

One who, or that which, balks. [1913 Webster]

balker, n. [See last Balk.].

A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer. [1913 Webster]