Word.ws English Dictionary

ballastmaster

ballastmaster noun: a harbor official responsible for overseeing the taking on and discharging of ballast by ships.

Noun

ballastmaster (usually uncountable, plural ballastmasters)

  1. (historical, usually) A harbor official responsible for overseeing the taking on and discharging of ballast by ships.

Forms of ballastmaster

pluralballastmasters
alternative formballast master

Origin of ballastmaster

From ballast + master.

Questions about ballastmaster

What does ballastmaster mean?
Ballastmaster means a harbor official responsible for overseeing the taking on and discharging of ballast by ships.
What part of speech is ballastmaster?
Ballastmaster is a noun.
What is the plural of ballastmaster?
The plural of ballastmaster is ballastmasters.

Words near ballastmaster in the dictionary

  1. ballasted up
  2. ballasting
  3. ballasting up
  4. ballastings
  5. ballastless
  6. ballastmaster
  7. ballastmasters
  8. ballasts
  9. ballasts up
  10. Ballater
  11. Ballathie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ballastmaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ballastmaster.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ballastmaster. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.