Word Meanings - BALLASTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
Related words: (words related to BALLASTAGE)
- TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - HARBOR MASTER
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - BALLASTAGE
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - HARBOROUS
Hospitable. - PRIVILEGE
See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment - PRIVILEGED
Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his - BALLASTING
That which is used for steadying anything; ballast. - TAKE-IN
Imposition; fraud. - HARBORLESS
Without a harbor; shelterless. - 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 - HARBORER
One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype. - TAKE-UP
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch. - HARBOR
The mansion of a heavenly body. 4. A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven. (more info) herberge, - HARBORAGE
Shelter; entertainment. Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson. - TAKING-OFF
Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak. - HARBOROUGH; HARBROUGH
A shelter. . Spenser. - TAKEN
p. p. of Take. - TAKER
One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - WATER BALLAST
Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - UNHARBOR
To drive from harbor or shelter. - OUTTAKE
Except. R. of Brunne. - STAKTOMETER
A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster. - SIDE-TAKING
A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall. - UNBALLASTED
Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - MISTAKEN
1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. - UNDERTAKING
1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an - RETAKE
1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners. - MISTAKER
One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.