Verb (used without object) : He balked at making the speech.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : a sudden reversal that balked her hopes. ,to balk an opportunity.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : to make a balk.    From Dictionary.com. 

I usually baulk when given orders, just ask my mom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sometimes You Just Have to Get Out of the Car] Reference

She fixed Sabin with a look thai, daied him to baulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

“None baulk kindliness save the base,” she rejoined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

He said he would even have spent as much, to baulk or injure.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

I baulk at anyone who say's Obama is shifting to the center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have A Mandate"] Reference

'I've never known you baulk your fancy yet, and never expect to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

Mother Nicneven, like Jean Jopp that lived in the Bricrie-baulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

Such men would not baulk at taking a wife who dislikes town life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of Expectations]

LUCINDA: Pretend to be a Lord and baulk a young woman's expectations!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference

Zimbabwean professionals baulk at their fast-diminishing buying power.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

National Party did not baulk at the idea of holding their own anywhere in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Will was with me, and both ever too well disposed to baulk an opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] Reference

He rested one foot upon a baulk of timber, and leaned forward on the knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruined City]

A device consisting of wires closely set between an upper and a lower baulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

National Party did not baulk at the idea of holding their own anywhere in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Burgess, however, touched with selfish regrets, determined to baulk the parson at the outset.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

In a word, he had determined that if he could in any way baulk poor Phil's ambition, he would.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference

If we amateurs are so terrible, then you have nothing to fear from us, so why baulk at comparison?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

He climbed the rubble side of the street, rolled over its crest and found cover behind a timber baulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Sword]

You're clever as paint, "he said," you turn your two-spots into aces, and leave him in baulk every time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

Voters say they want honesty from political leaders but baulk at voting for cuts and talk of hard times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Although he was certain the young doctor would baulk at the request, he did not think he would refuse him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

"I will baulk him yet!" he exclaimed, his pink eyes flashing, and his white fur bristling with excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference

What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk All hope of greenness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Tower]

"You saw them ride for Wherwell?" demanded Reginald, frowning heavily at every complexity that arose to baulk him.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

So both to baulk and detect the culprit she sewed a corner of the handkerchief to one of the pockets of his coat tails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference

Oh! how still and hush did I keep at my stand, lest any noise should baulk my curiosity, of bring Madam into the closet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure] Reference

Here I ought in reason to have stopped; but the speeches of Ajax and Ulysses lying next in my way, I could not baulk them.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

If the fellow can get anything in the shape of a gentleman to carry it, I have the greatest mind in life not to baulk him. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

Most Potent Prince, acted as Prime Minister, and to tell me, that such a one will baulk his Master's, or his own Interest, on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference

Now go back to your room and put on those small pink shorts, yes the skimpy ones, "as I begin to baulk," and the matching tank top.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Masturbation Fantasy] Reference

In the 'good old times' those piratical-looking craft would pick up a long thirty-feet baulk of timber at sea -- timber vessels from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

There is another very good reason (besides requiring them to deny their birthright) why Palestinians baulk at such an illiberal condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference