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walt
Crank. A ship is said to be walt, when she has not her due ballast, that is, not enough to enable he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
to totter, or lean one way, to overthrow ; from the old Saxon !!!W^LTAN, to tumble or roll ; whence our weltering in blood : or rather from the Saxon WEALTIAM, to reel or stagger. N.
Crank. A ship is said to be walt, when she has not her due ballast, that is, not enough to enable he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.