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lagan (lag′ən)

noun

Maritime Law goods cast overboard, as in a storm, with a buoy attached to identify the owner

Etymology: < OFr, goods washed up by the sea < ? base of ON leggja, to lie

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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