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English
Etymology
From balk + -er.
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balker (plural balkers)
- Someone or something that balks; a naysayer.
- (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.
- Synonyms: huer, conder
1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, folio 34r: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 […]
1845, William Thornber, Penny Stone; or, a Tradition of the Spanish Armada, page 32:“Ye are caught, master wizard,” cried Fleetwood, laughing; “the balkers have marked their fish, and we hold you as our prize.[”]
1904, George Nicholls, A History of the English Poor Law , 2nd edition, volume 1, page 218: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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