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Definition of Balkers
1. balker [n] - See also: balker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkers
Literary usage of Balkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"... disappoint ; (2) to heap up in a ridge? Cf. a billiard ball "in balk."] balkers.
Watchers on heights for shoals of herring. Ballast. ..."
2. The New System of Educating Horses, Including Instructions on Feeding by Dennis Magner (1870)
"Now step forward and Pole applied for balkers. tie a piece of small rope from
one hame ring to-the other ..."
3. The Art of Taming and Educating the Horse: With Details of Management in the by Dennis Magner (1886)
"RESTLESS balkers. If, when a young horse is hitched to a wagon, he is allowed to
start as he pleases a few times, he is liable to acquire the habit of ..."
4. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... ufe of the taking of faid counties called balkers, ... to their great lofs
and expences ; (г] by r cafan whereof, fuch watchmen, balkers, ..."
5. The Standard Horse Book by Dennis Magner (1893)
"Balking horses are of two kinds : Double-balkers and single- ... balkers in single
harness may be divided into two classes : First, horses that refuse to go ..."
6. Bibliotheca Piscatoria: A Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and by Thomas Westwood, Thomas Satchell (1883)
"An act for the better preservation of the fishing in the Counties of Somerset,
Devon and Cornwall and for the relief of balkers, condors and fishermen ..."
7. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"... Devon and Cornwall is, and of late time hath been, very great and profitable ";
that " divers persons within the said counties, called balkers, ..."
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