kentledge

I think you had better speak to Captain Kentledge on the subject.

My breast has felt the last four-and-twenty hours as if a ton of kentledge had been stowed in it.

Kentledge, kent′lej, n. pig-iron laid in a ship's hold for ballast.

The ward-room was then scuttled to get at the kentledge, twelve tons of which were thrown overboard.

Pigs of iron cast for permanent ballast, laid over the kelson-plates, or if in the limbers, then called limber-kentledge.