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Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress. / (by extension) Discarded odds and ends.

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jetsam

Source Word

jetsam

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

countable uncountable broadly

Japanese Meaning

船が難破したり、救助を受けるために積載重量を軽減する目的で、船やボートから海に投棄された物品。 / 転じて、不要になったり処分された雑多な品々。

After the storm, the beach was littered with jetsam that told silent stories of the wrecked freighter.

嵐の後、浜辺には難破した貨物船の無言の物語を語る海に投げ捨てられた荷物が散らばっていた。

Sense（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.

Sense（2）

(by extension) Discarded odds and ends.

They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.

jetsams

（ plural ）