Synonyms:
ballast
Meaning: any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ballast
Meaning: make steady with a ballast
Usage examples
"The wind's gusty and we've got hardly any ballast."
"I gave you leave to replace the ballast; that was all!"
My implements were all safe, and, fortunately, I had lost neither ballast nor provisions.
Meanwhile the ballast team has been going on merrily, and to-night Pennell must have some 26 tons on board.
But the men unloaded the canoes and--'a desperate undertaking'--ran them down the rapids with light ballast.
Well, then, in throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment, I am certain to rise with great rapidity."
Joe will see to throwing out the ballast, and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word.
In the afternoon, with some moderation of conditions, the ballast party went to work, and wrought so well that more than 10 tons were got off before night.
If the worst happens, Kaiser will fling overboard a lot of ballast in Europe, and it will look like a big victory for the Allies, but he won't be beaten if he has the road to the East safe.
"This is the idea, Dick: you will admit that if I can get to the prisoner, and throw out a quantity of ballast, equal to his weight, I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium of the balloon.