Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Also, a term applied to messengers, soldiers, and live-stock.
A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Adapted or used for shifting anything. II. Shifting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Shift>>. III. Shifti...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. ...
·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...
One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...
See meta-centre. ...
A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...
Variable breezes, mostly light. ...
·- 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.
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...
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. ...
Water when used to stiffen a ship, whether carried in casks, tanks, bags, or otherwise. The iron scr...
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ. ...
A term used for freshen the ballast. ...
Divide or separate it, so as to alter its position. ...
Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...
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...