Definition of Balkings

1. balking [n] - See also: balking

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkings

balkanized
balkanizer
balkanizers
balkanizes
balkanizing
balked
balker
balkers
balkier
balkiest
balkily
balkiness
balkinesses
balking
balkingly
balkings
balkish
balkline
balklines
balks
balky
ball-and-socket joint
ball-and-socket joints
ball-breaker
ball-breakers
ball-buster
ball-by-ball
ball-club
ball-clubs

Literary usage of Balkings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Idyll: The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Cornelia Stratton Parker (1919)
"Next day: "Had a remarkable visit with Dr. Gregory this AM He is one of the greatest psychiatrists in New York and up on balkings, business tension, ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Amongst many balkings is much stumbling.'—Id. The preacher was here alluding to the old proverb ' Many ..."

3. The Casual Laborer, and Other Essays: And Other Essays by Carleton Hubbell Parker (1920)
"At any rate the practice of first labor would be to free man from balkings and inhibitions. And then for the moment, trust like an idealist that the ..."

4. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"The same sermon also illustrates another sense of the word: "He would not walk in by-walks, whe»e are many balks. Amongst many balkings is much stumbling. ..."

5. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"Amongst many balkings is much stumbling.'—Id. The preacher was here alluding to the old proverb ' Many ..."

6. With Three Armies on and Behind the Western Front by Arthur Stanley Riggs (1918)
"... will be incommoded, frightened, perhaps even injured seriously in a material sense, with the consequence of many panicky objections and balkings which ..."

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