A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1637
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Ballast, Ballas, n. Also: ballest, -eist, balast, bellast. [e.m.E. balast (1530), balest, ballass, etc., MLG. ballast (also mod. LG., Du., etc.).] Ballast for ships.1536 Treasurer's Accounts VI. 452 (for mandis to turs ballas to the schippis). a 1538 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 265 (the casting of ballast of schippis in the heavin). 15.. Clariodus iii. 1955 (balleist). 1561 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 116 (for expensis in putting of the bote to the see, hir ballest, lyme … ). 1595 Duncan Appendix (Saburra, ship balast). 1637 Ann. Banff I. 79 (ballast of great stanes).