She lurched and faltered pitifully, as though she had loose water below, making through the baulks and canvas that formed a makeshift shield over her smashed skylights.
You and Carl, Clackett, will put the steel baulks in place.
This was not particularly alarming, for the baulks would settle down to their work.
Then the solid green bottom of their valley was ripped into furious white foam, and stark black baulks of timber came lunging up through it, all crusted with barnacles, festooned with hanging weeds, and laced with streaming white.
Malachi had run to the gate, and was dragging at the baulks of timber, shouting vain calls for help into the road.
Leaping through, they found themselves in the midst of a cheerful and entirely passive crowd, lining the road in front of Steens' wall, the gate of which had been closed with large baulks of timber from the mines.
The ceiling-baulks of the toll-house bulged beneath the weight of the flagged roof, and the red glare of the fire lighted the filthy faces on which the sweat had trickled and run into the soot.
These, too, are formed of massive baulks of timber, and their underside is made smooth so as to present as good a sliding surface as possible to the "ways.
The coffer-dam was a stout wooden partition built round the injury in the ship side, thoroughly buttressed from within the ship with stout baulks of timber.
The bulkheads closing in the compartments which were full of water, and all horizontal water-tight doors, were shored up with baulks of timber.
In the bows was a small turret constructed of baulks of timber, and containing a 9-pr.
Isak he went about building, notching his baulks and fitting up his framework; also he managed a hearth and fireplace of picked stones, though this last was troublesome, and Isak himself was not always pleased with his work.
The boom had just been drawn aside, the baulks from above came floating down in clean rows, needing no helping hand, and for the past two hours there had been no block in the river.
Wouldn't it be as well to send a couple of baulks down first, for whirlpools and hidden rocks?
The Whirlstone Rock it was; thebaulks had gathered about it in an inextricable mass.
The river-guard, seated on piles of baulks by the waterside, shifted a little.
This bridge of nearly two thousand years ago appeared to be built of baulks of timber fastened together in very much the same manner as that adopted by the engineering units of the great armies of to-day.
Meanwhile a second pontoon has been rowed into place and more baulks are passed from the first pontoon to the second, while chesses are laid upon the baulks to form a platform or floor.
The baulks are connected by bolts and nuts for which holes have to be drilled or by rods of iron with a sharply pointed prong on each end stretching across from one baulk to another, one prong being driven into each.
Large supplies of the ordinary heavy baulks could not be carried with an army: but strength is required nevertheless.
Generally of huge squarebaulks of timber, they are intended to carry very heavy loads of materials and to save the public passing beneath from any possibility of damage through heavy objects falling from above.
When close to he was detected, but he had time to drive the steam launch over the baulks and to explode the torpedo against the "Albemarle" with such success that a hole was made in her and she sank.
She was at anchor surrounded by baulks of timber, and a cordon of boats had been stationed to row guard against an expected Federal attack.
It was evident that Essex was contemplating a move, and orders were issued to the Royalists to stand at arms throughout the night, break down all bridges, and throw baulks of timber across the roads and lanes.
The raftsmen touch at every town along the river, proudly awaiting offers for their baulks and beams; but the strongest and the longest of the former they sell for gold to the Mynheers, who build ships of them.
There they received about four times the price usually obtained, while Michael's huge baulks fetched an enormous sum of money.
We're in for something, especially with that deck cargo," as he pointed to the towering baulks of mahogany which were stowed amidships.
Waist deep in water Ginger Anderson placed the charge in a space between the baulks of timber forming one of the principal piers, applied and lit the fuse.
The temporary viaduct was made of huge baulks of timber supporting a central span of only thirty feet.
The marks of teeth and claws on some of the baulks of the palisade showed us that the visitor had climbed over.
The real mystery was how the beast had made its way into the enclosure, guarded as it was by a solid fence made of baulks of timber and forming a veritable blockhouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baulks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
