Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from ballast; discharge the ballast from.
- Unballasted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. & R. Not ballasted.
- transitive verb To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove the
ballast from.
Etymologies
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un- + ballast
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Examples
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I picked out a Bonanza .375 because it is small enough to fit the hip pocket, light because of the new alloys so it wouldn't unballast me, and mostly because it packs enough wallop to stop a charging hippo.
Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946
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