单词 | ballast stone |
释义 | > as lemmasballast stone ballast stone n. any of the stones used as ballast in a ship; such stones collectively. ΚΠ 1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 12 June 3/1 There will be wanted a large quantity of Lime, Piles, Mud, Earth, and Ballast Stones. 1857 J. G. Swan Northwest Coast 260 Ballast stones which the storms had piled up in long rows. 1949 M. McLaverty Game Cock 126 Ballast stones were dropped overboard and Terence saw the water fizzle white. 2006 Palm Beach Post (Nexis) 20 May 3b Watts and his colleagues scanned about 7 square miles east of Peck Lake..to pick up anomalies that could be cannons, fasteners used on the Reformation, bricks or ballast stone. < as lemmas |
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