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Definition of Balking
1. Adjective. Stopping short and refusing to go on. "A balky customer"
Definition of Balking
1. Verb. (present participle of balk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Balking
1. balk [v] - See also: balk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balking
Literary usage of Balking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses by John Solomon Rarey (1858)
"ON balking. Horses know nothing about balking, only as they are brought into it by
... High-spirited, free-going horses are the most subject to balking, ..."
2. The Training and Breaking of Horses by Merritt Wesley Harper (1918)
"The causes which excite the horse to balking are many and varied, ... As balking
seems to be largely a nervous trouble, it is useless to punish the horse; ..."
3. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"—If there has ever been the least difficulty in the line of Kicking, or balking
it is best to have prepared a cart, of the hind wheels of an old waggon, ..."
4. Records of the English Catholics of 1715: Compiled Wholly from Original by John Orlebar Payne (1889)
"He settled on Elizabeth, his wife, 14th November, 1715, in bar of dower, lands
at balking. Bequests to Charles Coffin, of Buckland, and to Francis C., ..."
5. Modern Battles of Trenton by William Edgar Sackett (1914)
"CHAPTER XVIII balking THE INDEPENDENT VOTE Change of Election Devices as Soon as
People Grew Accustomed to Them—The Voting Machine, the Last Introduced for ..."
6. Tachyhippodamia: Or, The New Secret of Taming Horses by John Solomon Rarey, Willis J. Powell (1872)
"ON balking. Horses know nothing about balking, only as they are brought into it
by improper management, and when a horse balks in harness it is generally ..."
7. Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis Bail Pearson (1917)
"... balking "1 M THEN I write my book on farm pedagogy I shall » » certainly make
large use of the horse in illustrating the fundamental principles, ..."
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