vbl. sb. [f. BALLAST v. + -ING1.] The action or process of supplying with ballast; concr. and fig. = BALLAST sb.

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1536.  Act 27 Hen. VIII., xviii. The office and ordering of and for balasting for shippes.

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1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Lestage, the ballasting of a ship, or furnishing her with ballast.

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1837.  Athenæum, 21 Jan., 52/1. Fir planks … bedded on ballasting, which is loose gravel.

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1882.  Daily Tel., 8 April, 5/4. If he have the smallest possible ballasting of common sense.

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