baulking
English edit
Verb edit
baulking
- present participle and gerund of baulk
Noun edit
baulking (plural baulkings)
- Alternative form of balking
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, “Still Life”, in Two Years Ago, volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 45:
- Up jump half-a-dozen off the logs and baulkings, where they have been squatting, doubled up knee to nose, after the fashion of their class; and a volley of execrations, like a storm of grape, almost blows the two offenders off the wall.
- 1891 May 2, Thomas Valpy French, “The Lonely Pioneer”, in Herbert [Alfred] Birks, editor, The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French, First Bishop of Lahore, volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1895, page 389:
- I have seldom experienced such trying bafflings and baulkings of purpose.
- 1899, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “June”, in A Farmer’s Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., […]; New York and Bombay, page 223:
- What he meant was that in the old days a root-field would receive three or four ploughings in addition to the necessary baulkings.