<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Sports.<ul><li>(in track events) the starting line.</li><li>Billiards.<ul><li>a straight line drawn across the table behind which the cue balls are placed in beginning a game.</li><li>any of four lines, each near to and parallel with one side of the cushion, that divide the table into a large central panel or section and eight smaller sections or balks lying between these.</li><li>a balk lying inside one of these sections.</li><li>balk (def 11).</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>