Balked

ppl. a. [f. BALK v.¹ + -ED.]

  † 1.  Ridged, ribbed. Obs.

1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. cxc. (1633), 607. Streaked or balked as it were with sundry stiffe streakes or ribbes running along every leafe.

  † 2.  ? Heaped up; piled in a heap. Obs.

1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., I. i. 69. Two and twenty Knights Balk’d in their owne blood did Sir Walter see.

  3.  Checked, foiled; disappointed.

1704.  Steele, Tend. Husb., I. v. I came up to be married, I don’t care to go down and look baulk’d.

1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxv. (1866), 294. Pang of balked affection.