"unballasted" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Hidden Places:",
          "text": "Then, as if the clouds had discharged their aqueous cargo and rode light as unballasted ships, they lifted in aerial fleets and sailed away, white in a blue sky.",
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        "Not loaded or stabilised with ballast."
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        "(shipping) Not loaded or stabilised with ballast."
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          "roman": "anermátistos",
          "sense": "not stabilised with ballast",
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          "ref": "1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success:",
          "text": "It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned.",
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        "Unstable, liable to flounder."
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        "(figurative) Unstable, liable to flounder."
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  "word": "unballasted"
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