Trackbed upon which railroad ties are laid.
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Examples for "ballast "
1 A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
2 The hatch closed, and I heard water hissing in the ballast tanks.
3 Partridge rubbed his chin and said, 'Well, she's not in ballast , sir.
4 The site contains evidence of the galleon's original structure, ballast and endowment.
5 The turtles, however, were stowed in the hold, and served as ballast .
1 There was the machine- gun platform , with a long, empty belt still lying on it.
2 I then continued to the after end of ship, took station on after gun platform .
3 It furnishes a steady gun platform , which, with the necessary speed, is the most vital feature of a submarine chaser.
4 He saw the men on the rear gun platform look for him, and he was over them before they could react.
5 The men on the front gun platform called in and said they were being surrounded by Frenchmen, some of whom were armed.
6 And sitting on the broken wall of a gun platform was a figure which he knew by the dress to be Miss Penny.
7 Travis put on his helmet, left the relative comfort of the caboose, and stepped over to the rearmost gun platform on the adjacent flatcar.
8 From the lazaret, where I had my bath, I could see the gun platform with its machine guns, commanding every part of the Giessen Prison.
9 The officers appeared upon the machine- gun platforms .
10 They can't get at our gun platforms .
11 The battle droids opened fire with laser cannons from their gun platforms just as Obi-Wan reached his friend.
12 The attack came from Jiralhanae gun platforms that had been combing the streets, high above the Sharquoi infestation.
13 Streets had been barricaded at the edges Hekabe designated, and gun platforms rocketed overhead to provide full fire support.
14 Their gun platforms were covered with water-themen in gray must work their pieces standing half-legdeep in mud and slush.
15 'It's a fearful weapon,' remarked my colleague rather complacently, as he paced towards the gun platform .
16 There, on a sharp, tree-covered ridge, the Germans had intrenched, and gun platforms had been placed under the screen of the trees.
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