A person who refuses to comply.
1A small schoolmate, the balker's daughter, brought gingerbread to school every morning, and Little Sam was just "honing" for some of it.
2Your name is Mr. Balker, the mate of the Rattler, the blockade-runner from which we escaped in a whaleboat.
4"Which, while they're still fast friends, was the last word ever passed between them on the subject of the funker and the balker."