Crossword-Solution: BALLAST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ballast | a. | Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing. |
| Ballast | a. | Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness. |
| Ballast | a. | Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid. |
| Ballast | a. | The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete. |
| Ballast | a. | Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security. |
| Ballast | v. t. | To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold. |
| Ballast | v. t. | To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid. |
| Ballast | v. t. | To keep steady; to steady, morally. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BALLAST (5)
She was about winded when it occurred to her to try working the dugout into the stream by loading the stern with ballast and then rocking the bow back and forth along the bank until the craft eventually worked itself into the river.
The engine, the ballast, the several accessories and apparatus appendages, the partitions and bulkheads, weigh 961.62 tons.
Waters; and seeing two Irishmen unloading a large scow of stone, or ballast I went on board, unasked, and helped them.
But from the homestead not too far they fare, When showers hang like to fall, nor, east winds nigh, Confide in heaven, but 'neath the city walls Safe-circling fetch them water, or essay Brief out-goings, and oft weigh-up tiny stones, As light craft ballast in the tossing tide, Wherewith they poise them through the cloudy vast.
Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast.
Quotes with BALLAST (3)
No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.
It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer. It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and…
He is the only man she has ever loved, and he has dumped her like ballast. She needs to find an explanation that does not make her a fool and him an animal, but every thought of him is a knife turning in the wound love made.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).