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A large flat-bottomed boat or barge used in Ru ia for the carriage of timber by water. Ball Camp, in Tenne ee, a post-office of Knox co. Ball-cart/ridge, n. ( Milit.) A cartridge furnished with a ball. Ball-cock, n . A hollow sphere of thin metal, attached by a small rod to the cock of a water-cistern. When the cistern is empty, the water flows in at the tap, but with the rising water, the hollow sphere, the ball-cock, is buoyed up, and by this means the tap is turned off when the cistern is full. Ballenstadt, a town of N. Germany, in the duchy of Anhalt, 15 m. S.E. of Halberstadt. In the environs is a fine castle, the residence of the Duke. Pop . 4,848. Balleny Islands, in the Antarctic ocean, a group of five islands discovered in 1839. They are volcanic, and of small size. Lat. 66° 44' S.; Lon. 163° 11' Ε.