A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out.
·vt To keep steady; to steady, morally. II. Ballast ·vt To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy su...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A certain portion of stone, pig-iron, gravel, water, or such like materials, deposited in a ship's h...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. II. Master ·vi To be skillful; to <<Excel>>. III. Ma...
The epithet for the captain or commander of a merchant vessel. When England first became a maritime ...
·- Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. ...
See Old Trinity House. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Usually made of osier, for the transport and measure of shingle-ballast. Supplied to the gunner for ...
A large flat-floored barge, for heaving up and carrying ballast. ...
The horizontal line described by the surface of the water on the body of a ship, when she is immerse...
Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...
When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...
Composed of coarse gravel. ...
(See shoots.) In England, and indeed in most frequented ports, the throwing of ballast overboard is ...
A peculiar square and spoon-pointed iron shovel. ...
When a vessel has only ballast on board. ...
Is when by a sudden gust or stress of weather a ship is thrown so far over that the ballast settles ...
A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful mac...
A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...
Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...
Water when used to stiffen a ship, whether carried in casks, tanks, bags, or otherwise. The iron scr...
·- One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. ...
·- An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. ...
·add. ·- In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator...
·noun The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively. ...
·noun A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, ·etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck. ...
A highway robber, because he makes a gentleman obey his commands, i.e. stand and deliver. ...
church-warden. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A dockyard official. (See master-attendant.) ...
The officer placed in charge of a barrack. ...
A superior officer, captain, appointed to superintend disembarkation of an attacking force, who hold...
An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...
A pilot, or man of experience, for the Arctic Sea. ...
An officer in the royal dockyards appointed to assist in the fitting or dismantling, removing or sec...
Shipmaster or captain of a merchant vessel. ...
The chief superintendent in the building and repairing of ships in the royal dockyards. ...
The officer to whom a prize is given in charge to carry her into port. ...
A petty officer, appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the ho...
A commercial and marine auctioneer. ...
A term used for freshen the ballast. ...
Divide or separate it, so as to alter its position. ...
The prime minister, who has the patronage of all posts and places. ...
A title which, in 1814, was simplified to commander, the next degree above lieutenant; he ranks with...
In former times was an officer appointed to command the police-duty of a ship, to teach the crew the...
An officer of an hour or two, when the hands were piped "to mischief." The lord or abbot of misrule ...
Is the head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking,...
To divide the ballast in a ship's hold to get at a leak, or to trim and stow it. ...
To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in orde...
A gardener. ...
A baker. ...
One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor. ...
A master on board the commander-in-chief's ship, who has a general superintendence of the stores iss...
An officer appointed by the commissioners of the navy to attend to the navigating a ship under the d...