Definition of Jetsam

1. Noun. The part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm.

Generic synonyms: Part, Portion

2. Noun. The floating wreckage of a ship.
Exact synonyms: Flotsam
Generic synonyms: Wreckage

Definition of Jetsam

1. n. Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.

Definition of Jetsam

1. Noun. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress ¹

2. Noun. (context: by extension) discarded odds and ends ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jetsam

1. goods cast overboard [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jetsam

jetliners
jetload
jetloads
jeton
jetons
jetpack
jetpacked
jetpacking
jetpacks
jetplane
jetplanes
jetport
jetports
jets
jets d'eau
jetsam (current term)
jetsams
jetset
jetsetter
jetsetters
jetsetting
jetski
jetskied
jetskier
jetskiers
jetskiing
jetskis
jetsom
jetsoms
jetson

Literary usage of Jetsam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"Some say that " Jettison" and "jetsam" are the same. No doubt, the leading idea of each is ... Jettisoned goods may become jetsam, but only so when found. ..."

2. Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy (1920)
"m FLOTSAM AND jetsam A REMINISCENCE The tides of the war were washing up millions of wrecked lives on all the shores; what mattered the flotsam of a ..."

3. A Treatise of the Law of Waters: Including the Law Relating to Rights in the by Humphry William Woolrych (1853)
"(n) Flotsam, jetsam, and ligan, being on the land, pass by the grant of wreck, but this is only when the ship perishes, or the owner of the goods is not ..."

4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"FROM " jetsam " Once at a simple turning of the way I met God walking; and although the dawn Was large behind Him, and the morning stars Circled and sang ..."

5. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"FROM " jetsam " Once at a simple turning of the way I met God walking; and although the dawn Was large behind Him, and the morning stars Circled and sang ..."

6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"king's grant to a man of wrecks, things jetsam, flotsam, and ligan will not pass." § 411. (2) Statutes protecting wrecks; salvage.—"Wrecks, in their legal ..."

7. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharwood, Barron Field (1866)
"(J) But it ia otherwise of tilings flotsam, jetsam. and ligan; for over them the admiral hath jurisdiction, as they are in and upon the sea. ..."

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