baulking
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of balking.
Example Sentences
- "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."