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kentledge Naut.|ˈkɛntlɪdʒ|
Forms: 7 kintledge, kinttlidge, 7–8 kintlage, 8 kent(i)lage, 9 kentledge.
[Of obsure origin.
? f. kentle, kental, kintal, quintal + -age; cf. dunnage.]
Pig-iron used as permanent ballast, usually laid upon the kelson-plates. Also attrib.
1607Keeling in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) iii. vi. §2. 191 Our too great quantitie of kintledge goods, maketh our ship to labour marvellously. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 Ballast, kintlage, canting coynes. 1722Lond. Gaz. No. 6116/2 The Iron Kentilage from aboard the Carnarvon. 1860H. Gouger Imprisonm. Burmah x. 111 Logs of pure silver, shaped like pieces of ship's kentledge, but..wanting the handle with which kentledge is furnished for the convenience of lifting. 1892Pall Mall G. 3 Oct. 3/2 In order to give..greater stability..nearly one hundred tons of iron pigs or ‘kentledge’ was fitted into the open spaces along the keelson between her frames. |