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jetsam: see flotsam flotsam, jetsam, and ligan (flŏt`səm, jĕt`səm, lī`gən) [O.Fr. ..... Click the link for more information. . jetsam, jetsom 1. that portion of the equipment or cargo of a vessel thrown overboard to lighten her, as during a storm 2. another word for flotsam jetsam [′jet·səm] (engineering) Articles that sink when thrown overboard, particularly those jettisoned for the purpose of lightening a vessel in distress. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight--all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world. Financiers and promoters, and all the flotsam and jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon the shores of his eleven millions. But all these suggestions were but flotsam and jetsam cast to the surface by a more profound disturbance, which, as she could not consider it at present, manifested its existence by these grotesque nods and beckonings. |
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