ballast

The vessel was in ballast, and had brought money to make her purchases with.

You are in the same boat, and we must divide the ballast a little more equally.'

Four or five of these busts had been struck into the launch as ballast.

It is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.

Will you take me down to the Point when you get the ballast?

A gran' thing in a vessel, a bit o' ballast—like religion in a body.

The great fault in Zinzendorf's character was lack of ballast.

They got into the car, and the bags of ballast were tossed overboard.

It is valuable as a building stone and as ballast for roadbeds and foundations.

She had a considerable quantity of ballast in her, composed of pigs of iron.