baulks's Usage Examples:

maintain strict stratigraphic control while excavating (for this purpose, the baulks between trenches served to retain a record of the strata that had been dug.

site, since a large part of the settlement remain unexcavated beneath the baulks.

Bolsters are baulks of timber fixed across the bed.

Two new main floor beams for the dust floor were made from baulks of pitch pine which had previously been in a maltings at Bury St Edmunds.

The longitudinal baulks, and therefore the rails, were kept to gauge by "transoms" – transverse.

In February 2010, baulks were placed across the line just north of Sea Lake due to the deteriorating.

The union represented deal porters, who handled baulks of imported softwood at the Port of London, principally around the Surrey.

The troughs contained longitudinal baulks and were part of the original construction.

Many of these engines, in colonial use, were merely staked down to timber baulks, rather than being built onto masonry.

allow them to clamber over the booms which were supported by large timber baulks.

The space between baulks allows room for tie-down chains or lifting strops, making this bolster design easier to work with than a completely flat bed.

docks were the "deal porters", dockers who specialised in carrying huge baulks of deal (timber) across their shoulders and wore special headgear to protect.

They handled baulks of softwood or "deal", stacking them up to 60 feet (18 m) high in quayside.

Synonyms:

beam, balk, rafter,

Antonyms:

dissuade, stay in place, exhale, push, stay,