Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred and caulked in before proceeding to sea.
, or port-holes. The square apertures in the sides of a ship through which to point and fire the o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·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...
·- Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; — viz., Hastings, Romn...
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship. ...
Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports. ...
Ports cut down on the middle gun-deck of three-deckers, to serve as door-ways for persons going in a...
See ports. ...
In frigates, stern-ports cut through the gun-room. ...
A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...
Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...
Oblong passages leading from the nozzle-faces to the inside of the cylinder; by them the steam enter...
The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...
·- 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...
A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out. ...
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...
These are five highly privileged stations, the once great emporiums of British commerce and maritime...
A term used for freshen the ballast. ...
Divide or separate it, so as to alter its position. ...
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...
Otherwise lord warden (which see). ...