Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to goods which after a shipwreck appear floating on the sea.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (O. Eng. Law) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

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  • noun law, archaic Goods found floating on the sea after a shipwreck.

Etymologies

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From wave; compare jetsam.

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