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ballast up

ballast up verb: to ballast (stabilize or load with a weight) (something, e.g. a ship).

Verb

ballast up (third-person singular simple present ballasts up, present participle ballasting up, simple past and past participle ballasted up)

  1. (transitive) To ballast (stabilize or load with a weight) (something, e.g. a ship).
    • The ship was ballasted up with sand and rocks.
  2. (transitive) To ballast (lay a material on the bed of a railroad track) a track.
    • The workers ballasted up the tracks last month.

Forms of ballast up

third-person singular presentballasts up
present participleballasting up
past participleballasted up
pastballasted up

Questions about ballast up

What does ballast up mean?
Ballast up means to ballast (stabilize or load with a weight) (something, e.g. a ship).
What part of speech is ballast up?
Ballast up is a verb.
What is the past tense of ballast up?
The past tense of ballast up is ballasted up.

Words near ballast up in the dictionary

  1. ballast master
  2. ballast resistor
  3. ballast resistors
  4. ballast tank
  5. ballast tanks
  6. ballast up
  7. ballast wagon
  8. ballast wagons
  9. ballastage
  10. ballastages
  11. ballasted

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