balking
 慢行
 Balk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Balked p. pr. & vb. n. Balking.]
 1. To leave or make balks in. [Obs.]
 2. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [Obs.]
 Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
 Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.   --Shak.
 3. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [Obs.]
 4. To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent]
    By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the inns.    --Evelyn.
    Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.   --Bp. Hall.
 Nor doth he any creature balk,
 But lays on all he meeteth.   --Drayton.
 5. To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart; as, to balk expectation.
    They shall not balk my entrance.   --Byron.
 balking
      adj : stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky
            mule"; "a balky customer" [syn: balky]