Definition of Jetsams

1. jetsam [n] - See also: jetsam

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jetsams

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

Literary usage of Jetsams

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

1. The Bookman (1903)
"From the able jurist who jetsams ammunition to make room for tea to the faithful Piute Indian, in whom the best qualities of Uncas and the excellent Uncle ..."

2. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... date, or place of performance, though it is doubtful if the resurrection of these jetsams of time would add much to our knowledge of the age. ..."

3. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... date, or place of performance, though it is doubtful if the resurrection of these jetsams of time would add much to our knowledge of the age. ..."

4. Northern France: From Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1889)
"We now join the line from Troye» to Chaumont, and reach (33]/2 M.) jetsams (p. 274). From Vitry-le-François to Parti via Coulommiers, see p. 266. ..."

5. The Eighteen Christian Centuries by James White (1890)
"... and jetsams. They were also persons of a strong religious turn, and united the spirit of the missionary to the courage of the warrior and the avidity of ..."

6. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1883)
"... and jetsams of weed raked up and carried away. Another by no means uninteresting scene is the ingathering of the potato crop in June, when, ..."

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