"Kentledge, a term used to signify pigs of iron for ballast, which are laid upon the floor, near the keelson, fore and aft."—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 210See also pigs of ballast.
She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge. - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 87
"Kentledge, a term used to signify pigs of iron for ballast, which are laid upon the floor, near the keelson, fore and aft."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 210
See also pigs of ballast.
She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 87