baulks

• If the public baulks at paying the price, physicists can kiss goodbye to their dreams of teasing apart the laws of nature by smashing together particles at high energies. —  New Scientist - Online News
• September 2008 at 10: 38: 00 Internet telephony firm baulks at Ofcom's rules Skype has said that it will not "comply with Ofcom's ruling" to allow users to call 999 emergency services from its handsets .... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
• He, too, was clinging with all his might to one of the broken timber baulks, and, as his eyes met Will's, he uttered a piteous, gasping cry, and murmured the one word Help That appeal went straight to the boy's heart, and seemed to nerve him for his task Help? —  Will of the Mill
• The forest ways were blocked with timber baulks, and several ambuscades were laid, with cannon in them, "to play upon them on their march." —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• They found the woodland trackways blocked by the timber baulks, so they made a detour, hacking paths for themselves with their machetes, until they got clear of the wood. —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

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