Definition of Balkier

1. Adjective. (comparative of balky) ¹

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Definition of Balkier

1. balky [adj] - See also: balky

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkier

balize
balizes
balk
balkan nephropathy
balkanite
balkanization
balkanizations
balkanized
balkanizer
balkanizers
balkanizes
balkanizing
balked
balker
balkers
balkier (current term)
balkiest
balkily
balkiness
balkinesses
balking
balkingly
balkings
balkish
balkline
balklines
balks
balky
ball-and-socket joint

Literary usage of Balkier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1876)
"There are many cases in which an account has been allowed of the produce of mines ; and the opening of mines is waste ; " balkier \. ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"... those many articles which we term fancy goods, bnt many of which are as necessary to comfort, decency, and even health itself, as the balkier staples. ..."

3. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"... and He, so high, so vast, Who dealt the stroke, came thundering to the [ground! — Not B—ck—gh—m himself, with balkier sound, Uprooted from the field of ..."

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