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Word Meanings - BALLASTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

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  • 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.

 

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