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Balker vs Balder - What's the difference?

balker | balder |

As a noun balker

is one who, or that which balks.

As an adjective balder is

comparative of bald.

As a proper noun Balder is

the Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Freya, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.

balker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which balks.
  • 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

    * conder * huer (Webster 1913)

    balder

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bald)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    bald

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia bald) (er)
  • Having no hair, fur or feathers.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
  • # Having no hair on the head.
  • a bald man with a moustache
  • Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
  • Of a statement: empirically unsupported.
  • Antonyms

    * (having hair)

    Derived terms

    * bald as a coot * bald eagle * bald-faced * baldie * balding * baldly * baldness * baldy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Appalachian) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern .
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to become bald
  • See also

    * callow * nott * (projectlink) ----