Usage examples (6)

• She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
• My breast has felt the last four-and-twenty hours as if a ton of kentledge had been stowed in it.
• Cold shot and kentledge were dashed upon the boats, in the hopes of sinking them; while the carronades poured a destructive fire upon such boats as could be reached by...
• Write half a dozen folios full of other people's ideas (as all folios are pretty sure to be), and you serve as ballast to the lower shelves of a library, about as like to be...