kentledge

How to use kentledge in a sentence

• I think you had better speak to Captain kentledge on the subject.

  Pencil Sketches | Eliza Leslie

• My breast has felt the last four-and-twenty hours as if a ton of kentledge had been stowed in it.

  The Pathfinder | James Fenimore Cooper

• kentledge, kent′lej, n. pig-iron laid in a ship's hold for ballast.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) | Various

• The ward-room was then scuttled to get at the kentledge, twelve tons of which were thrown overboard.

  The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 | J. T. Headley.

• Pigs of iron cast for permanent ballast, laid over the kelson-plates, or if in the limbers, then called limber-kentledge.

  The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth