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n. Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a ship in distress.

n. Discarded cargo or equipment found washed ashore. See Usage Note at flotsam.

n. Discarded odds and ends.

n. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress

n. discarded odds and ends

n. Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan (or lagan), goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.

n. The act of throwing objects from a ship to lighten the load; jettison{1}. See Jettison, 1.

n. Anything thrown overboard from a ship, whether floating or not.

n. Objects scattered about in a disorderly manner.

n. In law and com.: Same as jettison.

n. The goods thrown out by jettison.

n. the floating wreckage of a ship

n. the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm

"And I’d argue that his ability to nose out a story and piece it together from all the flotsam and jetsam is just what we’ve been missing in national journalism."

jetson   

flotsam    ligan    lagan   

wreckage    part    portion   

flotsam    flotsam and jetsam   

jettison   

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