Dictionary Definition
balker n : a person who refuses to comply [syn:
baulker, noncompliant]
Extensive Definition
In English fishing customs, a conder, also
called a huer or bulker, was a person who stood on high places near
the sea coast, in times of
herring-fishing, to
signal to the fishers which way the shoal of herrings or pilchards
passed—their course being more discernible to those who
stand on high cliffs, due to the blue color they cause in the
water, than to those aboard vessels.
The term was also used to refer to the raised
location where a conder stood.
References
- "Conder". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.