Definitions
make steady with a ballast
Word origin
From Middle English bar (“bare”) + last (“load”).
Used in a sentence
““Oh, for the-- how much did you waste on that little boondoggle?” “Well, it's not that so much as--” “Krieger.” “Well, I needed ballast, and what better to simulate bricks of cocaine than, you know, bricks of cocaine.””
“It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.”
“The task of a Railway Construction Company, R.E., is to lay and ballast the track; [...].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Stabilizing weight”7 letters
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