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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.
2. Noun. The floating wreckage of a ship.
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
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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