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• Shingle

  ·vt To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. II. Shingle ·noun A sign for an office or a shop...

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• shingle

  A jocose term for a sign-board, placed over a shop-door or office. Doctors and dentists from the Un...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• shingle

  Coarse gravel, or stones rounded by the action of water; it is used as ballast. ...

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• Ballast

  ·vt To keep steady; to steady, morally. II. Ballast ·vt To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy su...

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• ballast

  A certain portion of stone, pig-iron, gravel, water, or such like materials, deposited in a ship's h...

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• shingle-splitting

  vb. n. obsolete Tasmanianslang. 1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 89: «When a man gets behindhand ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• shingle-tramper

  A coast-guard man. ...

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• Water ballast

  ·- Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. ...

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• Ballast Office

  See Old Trinity House. ...

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• shifting ballast

  A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...

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• ballast-basket

  Usually made of osier, for the transport and measure of shingle-ballast. Supplied to the gunner for ...

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• ballast-lighter

  A large flat-floored barge, for heaving up and carrying ballast. ...

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• ballast-mark

  The horizontal line described by the surface of the water on the body of a ship, when she is immerse...

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• ballast-master

  A person appointed to see the port-regulations in respect to ballast carried out. ...

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• ballast-ports

  Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...

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• ballast-shifting

  When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...

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• ballast-shooting

  (See shoots.) In England, and indeed in most frequented ports, the throwing of ballast overboard is ...

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• ballast-shovel

  A peculiar square and spoon-pointed iron shovel. ...

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• ballast-trim

  When a vessel has only ballast on board. ...

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• canting ballast

  Is when by a sudden gust or stress of weather a ship is thrown so far over that the ballast settles ...

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• ballast dredger

  A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful mac...

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• pea-ballast

  A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...

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• shifting ballast

  Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...

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• water-ballast

  Water when used to stiffen a ship, whether carried in casks, tanks, bags, or otherwise. The iron scr...

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• french the ballast

  A term used for freshen the ballast. ...

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• freshen the ballast

  Divide or separate it, so as to alter its position. ...

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• trench the ballast, to

  To divide the ballast in a ship's hold to get at a leak, or to trim and stow it. ...

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• wing up ballast, to

  To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in orde...

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