jetsam
noun
goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.
jetsom
-
a variation of
jetsam.
Example Sentences
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Musing thus, the other day, In a bight within a bay, I'd a sudden thought that yet some Purpose for this piece of jetsom Might be found; and straight supplied it.
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
This was one of the places where the Bruce, proudest of the lords of Cleveland, had “free fisheries, plantage, floatage, lagan, jetsom, derelict, and other maritime franchises.”
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
