Usage History of 'balking'

The following chart shows how frequently 'balking' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'balking' occurred 2 times in books in 1693 and 3,905 times in 2008. From 1693 to 2008, the word 'balking' was used a total of 77,721 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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