jetsam

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English jetteson, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman getteson. Doublet of jettison

Noun

jetsam (countable and uncountable, plural jetsams)

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

   There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.

2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends

   They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.

Derived terms

• flotsam and jetsam

Translations

jetsam

• Esperanto: fuko
• Finnish: ajelehtiva hylkytavara
• French: lest (fr) m
• Georgian: გემიდან ქარიშხლის გადაყრილი ტვირთი (gemidan karišxlis gadaq̇rili ṭvirti)
• German: Strandgut (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ξέβρασμα (el) n (xévrasma)
• Maori: titītai
• Scottish Gaelic: caitheachan m, murrag f
• Spanish: echazón (es) f, desechos (es) m pl

See also

• jetsam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flotsam
• flotsam and jetsam
• lagan
• derelict
• salvage

Anagrams

• matjes