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Ballast

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Ballast

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Engaged in discharging

Engaged in discharging, means 'A lighter or craft is 'engaged in discharging' ballast or goods within an exemption from dock dues, if she goes to the place of discharge in the

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Kentlage

Kentlage, a permanent ballast, consisting usually of pig-iron, cast in a particular form, or other weighty material, which, on account of its

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

Fin keel

a cigar shaped bulb of lead at the bottom and generally made of metal Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least

Guide rope

length used to preserve altitude automatically by variation of the length dragging on the ground without loss of ballast or gas

Kentledge

Pigs of iron used for ballast

Knockabout

having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in length The next larger

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