What's the difference between balder and balker?

Balder


Definition:

  • (n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.

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  • (1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
  • (2) The Samaritans urges us to avoid some terms, such as the old-fashioned "commit suicide", as if it were a deliberate, thought-out act, or "successful suicide", as if this were a positive event, and instead use the balder "death by suicide" or "take one's own life".
  • (3) Then, in 2007, he returned with his old friend Paul Whitehouse in a sketch show with new characters – balder, greyer and thinner than we remembered him.
  • (4) The balder facts of the story were that the parliaments in Edinburgh and London had paid Anthony d'Offay £26m, the cost price of work he had mostly acquired in the last five years, and waived his £14m tax bill.

Balker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which balks.
  • (n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

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