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Feb. 17, 2015

ballast \BAL-uhst\ noun 1. anything that gives mental, moral, or political stability or steadiness: the ballast of a steady income. 2. Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability. Quotes The respectable concourse, I contend, men and women, should not have their sensations heightened in the hot-bed of luxurious indolence, at the expence of their understanding; for, unless there be a ballast of understanding, they will never become either virtuous or free... -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 Origin Ballast emerged in English in the late 1400s with a nautical noun sense of "any heavy material used to steady a ship." It is perhaps of Scandinavian origin, descending from the Old Swedish and Old Danish term barlast, bar meaning "mere" or "bare," and last meaning "load" or "cargo."

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