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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bal-uh st |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæl əst |
Definition of ballasted
Origin :- "heavy material used to steady a ship," 1520s, from Middle English bar "bare" (see bare; in this case "mere") + last "a load, burden," or borrowed from identical terms in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian (cf. Old Danish barlast, 14c.). "Mere" because not carried for commercial purposes. Dutch balg-last "ballast," literally "belly-load," is a folk-etymology corruption.
- As in load : verb burden, saddle
- As in poise : verb balance, suspend
- As in stabilize : verb make or keep in steady state; make resistant to change
- The Splash was ballasted with ten fifty-sixes, each with a ring for lifting it.
- Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic
- She ballasted the boat, and for Bompard she was something to lean against.
- Extract from : « The Beach of Dreams » by H. De Vere Stacpoole
- She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
- Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
- It is ballasted with humour, too; and has a charming whimsicality.
- Extract from : « Studies of Contemporary Poets » by Mary C. Sturgeon
- Let us be ballasted with grace, that we be not blown over, and that we stagger not.
- Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Rutherford » by Samuel Rutherford
- The sleepers were not ballasted and were anything but level.
- Extract from : « Across America by Motor-cycle » by C. K. Shepherd
- The track is smoothed and weeded and ballasted as if it were the London and North-Western.
- Extract from : « My African Journey » by Winston Churchill
- Some Indiaman, ballasted with guilders, you have heard of in shore.
- Extract from : « Captain Kyd, Vol. II » by Joseph Holt Ingraham
- I have pretty well now ballasted my stomach and stuffed my paunch.
- Extract from : « Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. » by Francois Rabelais
- When the Sangley ships are about to depart, they are ballasted and loaded with lumber.
- Extract from : « The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 » by E. H. Blair
Synonyms for ballasted
- arrange
- balance
- ballast
- be ready
- bear
- bolt
- brace
- brood
- buttress
- carry
- charge
- chock
- choke
- containerize
- counterbalance
- counterpoise
- cram
- equalize
- fasten
- fill
- firm
- firm up
- fix
- float
- flood
- freeze
- freight
- glut
- gorge
- hang
- heap
- heap up
- hold
- hover
- jam
- lade
- lumber
- maintain
- mass
- ossify
- oversupply
- pack
- pile
- pile it on
- pile up
- place
- poise
- position
- pour in
- preserve
- prop
- put aboard
- ram in
- secure
- set
- settle
- stabilitate
- stabilize
- stack
- stand
- steady
- stiffen
- store
- stow
- stuff
- support
- surfeit
- sustain
- swamp
- top
- top off
- uphold
- wait
- weigh
- weigh down
- weight
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