When a vessel has only ballast on board.
·noun Dress; gear; ornaments. II. Trim ·vt To dress, as timber; to make smooth. III. Trim ·noun Or...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
State, dress. In a sad trim; dirty.--Also spruce or fine: a trim fellow. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The set of a ship on the water, whether by the head or the stern, or on an even keel. It is by the d...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt To keep steady; to steady, morally. II. Ballast ·vt To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy su...
A certain portion of stone, pig-iron, gravel, water, or such like materials, deposited in a ship's h...
Like master, like man. ...
·- 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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
A ship not properly balanced for fast sailing, which may be by a defect in the rigging or in the sto...
The order to sit in the boat in such a manner as that she shall float upright. Also, to edge aft, so...
A term used for freshen the ballast. ...
Divide or separate it, so as to alter its position. ...
The arrangement of the cargo, &c., by which a vessel carries sail well, and becomes under control as...
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...