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To make or sing ballads.
To make mention of in ballads.
A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
A writer of ballads.
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
Alt. of Ballahou
A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
To bully; to threaten.
The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
To keep steady; to steady, morally.
To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
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