balky

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"I actually have been hitting the ball fairly well the last couple of weeks, and I've been out with a baulky putter," Inskter told reporters after mixing four birdie with a lone bogey.

From Reuters • Apr. 2, 2015

There is a quicker process that will generally start a baulky horse, but not so sure.

From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)

Uncle Jake and I would make a baulky team.

From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Vachell, Horace Annesley

Walk them about together for some time as slowly and lazily as possible; stop often, and go up to your baulky horse and gentle him.

From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)

Say, Zip wouldn’t hurt a louse; he’s that gentle-natured I’d say if ther’ was only a baulky mule between him an’ starvation he’d hate to live.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell