Balker

Definitions

1. Someone or something that balks; a naysayer.
2. 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.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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 […]”

““Ye are caught, master wizard,” cried Fleetwood, laughing; “the balkers have⟳ marked their fish⟳, and we hold⟳ you as our prize.[”]”

“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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