jetsam.

Material thrown from a vessel, especially to lighten it, or discarded remnants more generally.

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Words that belong together

• flotsam and jetsam
• jetsam on the beach

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Jetsam from the damaged vessel reached the beach.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.