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  2. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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    Baulk lines may also be drawn on English billiards tables, and even British-style pool tables. The baulk line is an integral part of the "D". The baulk line's position is always determined by measurement from the baulk cushion, in contrast to the similar but different head string, the position of which is determined by the diamonds.

  3. English billiards - Wikipedia

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    English billiards, [1] ... If playing in-hand and all balls on the table are in baulk, and contact is not made with any ball, this is a miss; 2 points are awarded to ...

  4. Baulk - Wikipedia

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    Baulk, a wall of intact earth in an archaeological excavation; Baulk road, a type of railway track; Baulking; Baulking, tactic used in water polo to trick a goalkeeper into thinking that the player is shooting; Baulking, a village in Oxfordshire England; Baulk Head to Mullion, a coastal site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Cornwall ...

  5. Glossary of Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    Baulk: a manoeuvre where a player holds the ball out to the side in one hand, then runs in the other direction to evade a defender. [ 9 ] Behind : a score worth one point, earned by putting the ball between a goal post and a behind post, or by the ball hitting a goal post, or by the ball being touched prior to passing between the goalposts.

  6. Rules of snooker - Wikipedia

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    A common strategy for this shot involves placing the cue ball on the baulk line, between the brown ball and either the green or yellow ball. The break-off alternates between players on successive frames. Only one player may visit the table at a time. A break is the number of points scored in a single visit to the table. A player's turn and ...

  7. Balk - Wikipedia

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    Bob Shaw holds the major league record for most balks in a single game, five, in 1963.. In baseball, a balk is a set of illegal motions or actions that a pitcher may make. . Most of these violations involve pitchers pretending to pitch when they have no intention of doin

  8. Croquet - Wikipedia

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    Baulk An imaginary line on which a ball is placed for its first shot in the game, or when taking a lift: The A-baulk coincides with the western half of the yard line along the south boundary; the B-baulk occupies the eastern half of the north boundary yard line. [35] Bisque, half-bisque A bisque is a free turn in a handicap match.

  9. Glossary of archaeology - Wikipedia

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    baulk balk A wall of earth left in place between excavated areas in order to maintain the structural integrity of the trench and/or expose a section to aid in interpretation. bladelet Type of stone tool; a small blade characteristic of Upper Palaeolithic Europe. [10] box–grid method See Wheeler–Kenyon method.