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ballast
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ballast \Bal"last\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ballasted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ballasting .] To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold. To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid. To keep ...
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Ballast is any material used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. It may also refer to:
Usage examples of ballast.
Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the Pigeonhouse and the Poolbeg Light.
Kyle opened the ballast, and the scutter surfaced in a shadow, bobbing.
The cabin floor had been torn up to get at the ballast, and rusty bilge-water swashed and splashed.
The sloop was far too sophisticated a vessel to take to the Pliocene, so I traded her in for a smaller trimaran that can be ballasted with water and sand instead of mercury.
The console controls the ballast tank vent and blowing system, the hovering system, and the trim system.
She had no inside ballast, her iron keel weighed five tons, but her deep draught and high freeboard made her very stiff.
The ballast, composed of heavy masses of iron, had broken through in several places.
The huge animals excreted a constant wake of the photoactive algae they used for ballast.
Wrapped in meditation he sat, taciturn, ballasting the unstable piroque which his stalwart comrade propelled with astonishing speed against the current.
Thirty feet to the inch, and if I use sword steel or stoneshot for ballast, the quarries in Elssine will have run out of honest gray stone.
So Longarm consulted his watch and crunched off across the traprock ballast of the Golden rail yards as he idly wondered why it always smelled like a cobwebbed hayloft over in these foothills, indoors or out.
The chief stood and reached into the overhead for the chicken switch, the lever that would admit ultrahigh pressure air directly into the main ballast tanks forward.
The Chief of the Watch opened the main ballast tank vents by selecting one of the electronic options on the computer control system displays of the ballast control panel.
He was gambling that the ballast tanks had leaked air out over the last five days in captivity, letting in water from the vents below.
Left unattended and with no ballast tank blow a submarine would probably sink after a month at pier side The way the vents had jammed in the struggle with the Chinese, and with the port list, there was a good chance the tanks had a considerable amount of water in them, which meant they were low in the water.