Word Meanings - UNBALLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from. Totten.

BALLASTAGE
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
BALLASTING
That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.
BALLAST
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. 2. Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness. 3. Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the
DISCHARGER
One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
DISCHARGE
1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
WATER BALLAST
Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
UNBALLASTED
Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
UNBALLAST
To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from. Totten.