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lestage.

ballasting

7 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/lɛs.taʒ/
  1. ballasting

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle French, from Old French lastage (“ballast”), from Medieval Latin lestagium (“tax imposed on a ship's lading”), from Old English hlæst (“load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastą, *hlastuz (“load, burden”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”). Cognate with Old High German hlast, hlesti (“load”) (German Last). More at lade.

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