baulking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of baulk

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of balking.

   “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.”

   “I have seldom experienced such trying bafflings and baulkings of purpose.”

   “What he meant was that in the old days a root-field would receive three or four ploughings in addition to the necessary baulkings.”