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jetsam

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[ jet-suhm ]

noun

  1. goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.


jetsam

/ ˈɛٲə /

noun

  1. that portion of the equipment or cargo of a vessel thrown overboard to lighten her, as during a storm Compare flotsam lagan
  2. another word for flotsam
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of jetsam1

1560–70; alteration of jetson, syncopated variant of jettison
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of jetsam1

C16: shortened from jettison
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Idioms and Phrases

see flotsam and jetsam .
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While the garden is rooted in local culture, built bit by bit from the flotsam and jetsam of Los Angeles locations and plants native to the ecology, the programming is more global in approach.

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The cavernous space is mostly filled with chairs, desks, filing cabinets and other bureaucratic jetsam.

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"It was impossible not to conclude," he later wrote, that for Powell "the struggle was about achieving long-term objectives, not simply a mastery of the flotsam and jetsam of current events".

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Even though Polk was severely injured, Faulkingham said, he was safe and felt God was watching as flotsam and jetsam from his boat was pushed ashore.

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Nearly a year and a half after the full-scale Russian invasion, the war remains a supply line of sorts for Reva, a never-ending tide tossing up new flotsam and jetsam.

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