Jetsam Definition

jĕtsəm
noun
That part of the cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a ship in danger.
Webster's New World
Such material washed ashore.
Webster's New World
Discarded things.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Jetsam

  • From earlier jetson alteration of Middle English jetteson a throwing overboard jettison

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English jetteson, from Anglo-Norman getteson (See jettison.)

    From Wiktionary

Jetsam Sentence Examples

  • Triangle Box Crease Pattern, via Flotsam and Origami Jetsam, has no instructions on how to make the box.

  • Passers-by would be encouraged to toss flotsam and jetsam into these gigantic bins, thereby performing the dual role of beach comber and artist.

  • My childhood in Ireland was filled with images of London from films, TV and much more cultural flotsam and jetsam.

  • These are big strands but there's other jetsam strewn across this beach, disjecta membra.

  • Among his books of poetry, Ranolf and Amolia, a South Sea Day Dream, is the best known (1872), and Flotsam and Jetsam (1877) is dedicated to Browning.

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