balkin

And before the conclave was adjourned, Lee Skeats, the chairman, remarked: "Circuit, ef Netty shows airy sign o 'balkin' at th 'size o' your bank roll, you kin jes 'tell her that thar 's a bunch out here in Cross Cañon that's been lovin' her sort o 'by proxy, that'll chip into your matrimonial play, plumb double the size o' your stack, jest fo 'th' hono 'o' meetin 'up wi' her an 'th' pleasure o 'seein' their pardner hitched."

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

Now what in blazes you're actin 'like a mule balkin' at a shadder for, I dunno.

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

'So we pooked him back into the middle of the brook, an' we saw he went round the elber 'thout balkin', an 'we walked quite a piece beside of him to set him on his ways.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

Was it all about balkin bob who called Orlando for two last year as well?

Mets Geek 2009

'mighty nigh all this here gee-hawin', balkin ', and kickin'

The Shepherd of the Hills Harold Bell Wright 1908