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Definition of To freshen ballast

To freshen ballast
2. To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. (Naut.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. -- Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Meaning of To freshen ballast from wikipedia

- freezing fremd (also fremmit, frempt) "strange, foreign, alien" fresh freshen freshman freshness fret Friday friend friendhood friendish friendless friendly...
- alongside sister ship; Stavros S Niarchos. With bright sunny skies and freshening winds, the two majestic brigs battled it out over a series of four races...
- falling north of Watford being reported from around 9:00 p.m. The wind was freshening from the north-west. The commander of the Western sub-section of the London...
- beat. Easing the sheets, we shot up toward 9 knots, and when the wind freshened to 15 knots true, the speedo hit 9.2. The ride was easy and the motion soft...
- fresco, English fresh, ON ferskr, OHG frisc id. Derivatives: refrescar 'to freshen', frescura 'freshness', fresqueira 'ice box', fresquío 'type of smell...
- water ballast heading for her home port of Cardiff. She left Le Havre on 6 March 1912 and rounded the Lizard at midnight on 20 March in a freshening southerly...
- 1872 at Terrigal, that was wrecked when it missed stays whilst carrying ballast (vessel was used in the lime trade) between Botany Bay and Port Stephens...
- 380 lb (1,533 kg) of ballast, while the shoal draft model displaces 12,000 lb (5,443 kg) and carries 3,525 lb (1,599 kg) of ballast. The boat has a draft...
- heavy, well-placed chunk of ballast, which ****ures the stability. The bow and stern shapes have been carefully studied so as to produce a boat that doesn't...