Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
balk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
balk .
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Examples
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To "bauk" is to leave small strips of land unturned in ploughing.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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I think the poor people who are living in there car should be able to more into the extra mansion rooms of the CEO bauk outs
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L before k is silent; as in balk, walk, talk; pronounced bauk, wauk, tauk.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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Nothing remains of these apartments beyond their windows, three beautiful stone mantelpieces, and two or three massive oak bauk-beams.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Hugh Miller's uncle Sandy, giving the poor man the "cast of the bauk," even to his own hurt.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862
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"'Oh, I'm des toler'ble myse'f, Sis Cow; sorter linger'n' twix 'a bauk en a break-down,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
Gammerstang commented on the word bauk
(noun) - (1) A ridge of land left unploughed. --Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (2) As used in Scotland, a strip two or three feet in breadth. --John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
April 23, 2018