"balker" meaning in English

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        "Someone or something that balks; a naysayer."
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          "ref": "1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, folio 34ʳ:",
          "text": "The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish, called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish, who leapeth now and then aboue water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the Balker […]",
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          "ref": "1845, William Thornber, Penny Stone; or, a Tradition of the Spanish Armada, page 32:",
          "text": "“Ye are caught, master wizard,” cried Fleetwood, laughing; “the balkers have marked their fish, and we hold you as our prize.[”]",
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          "ref": "1904, George Nicholls, A History of the English Poor Law […], 2nd edition, volume 1, page 218:",
          "text": "For remedy whereof, and for the maintenance of the profitable trade of fishing, it is enacted that fishermen, balcors, huors, condors, guiders, etc., may enter lands near fishing-places to watch for and draw fish on shore, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.",
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        "A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass."
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        "(obsolete) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass."
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          "text": "The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish, called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish, who leapeth now and then aboue water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the Balker […]",
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          "text": "“Ye are caught, master wizard,” cried Fleetwood, laughing; “the balkers have marked their fish, and we hold you as our prize.[”]",
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        "(obsolete) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to observe shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass."
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