ballasted

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
2. (transitive) To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
   • The task of a Railway Construction Company, R.E., is to lay and ballast the track; [...].1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262
3. (transitive) To weigh down with a ballast.
   • The noosance was […] that to make the umbrella effective he would have to carry abroad such weight to ballast it as would put the whole contraption out of action for carrying abroad at all.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 35

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