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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F.

jeter

to throw: cf. OF.

getaison

a throwing. Cf.

(Mar. Law)

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.

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

, 1.

jetson ‎(countable and uncountable, plural jetsons)