She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

My breast has felt the last four-and-twenty hours as if a ton of kentledge had been stowed in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder; or, the inland sea] Reference

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 their shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

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 disturbed as the kentledge in the hold of a ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

"We should have sunk into English mud, for eternity, as sure as our metal and kentledge would have taken us down," responded Tom; "such a point-blanker would have torn off a streak of our wales, outboard, and not even left the marines time to say a prayer!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

From the kentledge on the kelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Seas] Reference