Balking is valid Scrabble Word

Is balking a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is balking valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for BALKING in dictionary:

VERB:

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)
miss or refuse (a chance or invitation)
(with reference to a horse) refuse or cause to refuse to go on

NOUN:

the act of balking
a roughly squared timber beam
the area on a billiard table between the balk line and the bottom cushion, within which in some circumstances a ball is protected from a direct stroke.
an unlawful action made by a pitcher that may deceive a base runner.
a ridge left unploughed between furrows.

ADJECTIVE:

stopping short and refusing to go on

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to stop short and refuse to proceed

Words related to BALKING

balk10 balked13 balkings15 balks11

Words that contain BALKING

balkings15 balkingly19

How to use BALKING in a sentence

One day, after the first freeze this winter, I was Balking along a little pond.
He made one well-timed and almost successful effort to bolt, and even evinced signs of balking on the steps.
Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways, Balking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise.
Shying, balking, and kicking, and champing the political bit, are only spirited to the childish.
At the camp it had meant breaking bounds, balking the Military Police, doing forbidden things generally.
Balking our wit To sound or circumvent, Hate cannot harm A foe so reticent.
He seemed like a restive horse, the more he was whipped and spurred the more immovably he retained his balking attitude.
He stood in the doorway watching, but the gray, instead of balking, went out of the yard with an angry plunge.

Similar words containing BALK without suffix ing

balk10 balks11 balky14 balked13 balker12 balkers13 balkier13 balkily16 balkiest14 balkings15 balkline14 balkanise15 balkanize24 balkiness15 balkingly19 balklines15 balkanised17 balkanises16 balkanized26 balkanizes25 balkanising18 balkanizing27 balkinesses17 balkanisation19 balkanization28 balkanisations20 balkanizations29

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