BAULKING
- Hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
- Thwart or hinder (a plan or person)
- Prevent a person or animal from having (something)
- (of a horse) Refuse to go on
- BAULK, to refrain from proceeding, also BALK, BAUK [v]
- Miss or refuse (a chance or invitation)
- (of a pitcher) Make an illegal motion, penalized by an advance of the base runners
- BAULK, to balk (to stop short and refuse to proceed) [v]