She was a beast of a brig, all hold and dirty framework, and they had ballasted her with old iron and old rails and iron sleepers, and got a miscellaneous lot of spades and iron wheelbarrows against the loading of the quap.
The board objected to sinking them, but said they should be ballastedand plugged, ready to be sunk in case of attack.
You can let her out a little for a few miles," the engineer took the permission for all it was worth and sent the eight-wheeler flying down the newly-ballasted stretch.
The superintendent's desk was hospitably unlocked, and for a busy half-hour Ford filled blank after blank, steadying himself against the pounding swing of the heavily ballasted car with a left-handed grip on the desk end.
The schooner wasballasted with it, taking in, as nearly as we could calculate, twenty tons, and the precious metal was also substituted for the lead ballast of the cutter.
I ballasted my boat entirely with ingots; selecting the most discoloured I could reach, so that they might be less easily recognisable as gold, and the risk I ran of being ultimately robbed of them reduced in the same proportion.
It was an American invention worked by hand andballasted with water.
In case of accident, I ballasted her with a length of chain cable, shackled to ringbolts on her bottom, the other end made fast to a rope and a buoy.
The rails laid along the inside of the stockade made a two-mile track, as well ballasted as any regular railroad right of way.
Besides this splendid sarcophagus, my craft from the colony was ballasted with four bullocks and several barrels of rum, as a contribution to the funeral.
She was partly ballasted with a cargo of steam coal, which it was intended to sell in some foreign port, so as to pay part of the expenses of the expedition.
Later on, however, Lord Dundonald took the responsibility on himself of seizing the Protector's yacht at Ancon, and discovered that it was entirely ballasted with silver coin and uncoined gold.
On this day she also carried up a small parachute ballastedby a firework contrivance, that would go off in a shower of silver.
He was very sure that any boat would behave badly if rigged and ballasted as the Goldwing was.
She was ballasted so that she carried a lee helm," answered Dory, as solemnly as though he settled the fate of a nation by his words.
She is ballastedwith utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
I have pretty well nowballasted my stomach and stuffed my paunch.
He took a wholesome and good-going schooner, Master Skimmer, with an assorted freight of chosen tobacco, well ballasted with stones from off the seashore.
The Atlantic Ocean; if you doubt my word, I appeal to this well-ballasted old gentleman, who being a schoolmaster, is able to give you latitude and longitude for its truth.
In a couple of hours we were sliding and bumping down grade through an oozy morass over tracks ballasted with something having the consistency of oatmeal mush liberally diluted with skim milk.
I do not wish to libel that useful railway system; but at that time the casual impression of the traveler on the Southern Pacific was that its rails had been laid on water, and were ballasted with quicksand.
For the first 60 or 70 miles from Callander the line is ballasted entirely by sand, and, with the exception of a few settlements, is entirely without fencing.
The line is also ballasted east of Port Arthur, though in some places the ballast is of poor quality, and in others there is not sufficient of it.
In many places the embankment for the roadway is 8 or 9 feet in height, and the roadbed is ballasted with the same material.
Then sometime later the road-bed is ballasted and the line made ready for heavy operation.
Having critically examined our oar-locks, and carefully ballasted our boats, we pulled into the rough water.
Press this little boat of eggs deep into the water, and its buoyancy causes it to rise immediately to the surface, where it maintains its true position of a well-ballasted craft, right side up.
Ballasted boats should never go into rough water unless they have water-tight cockpits and water-tight companions and openings.
Under these ends we laid another timber, parallel to the boat's length, in the mud and ballastedit with stones and iron.
Our outside ballasted boats cannot be kept wrong side up, so long as the water is kept out of them.
The Lady Hermione' is ballasted with lead, the greater portion of which is carried outside in the form of a keel, which weighs about two tons.
He and Bastianello launched the old tub between them, and Ruggiero ballasted her with two heavy sacks of pebbles just amidships, where they would be under his feet.
Ruggiero, however, cared for none of these things, but ballasted the tub properly with bags of pebbles and demonstrated to the crowd that she was no longer easy to upset, inviting any one who pleased to stand on the gunwale and try.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
