flotsam

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flotsam - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flotsam \Flot"sam\, Flotson \Flot"son\, n. [F. flotter to float.
     See FFlotilla, and cf. Jetsam.] (Law)
     Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in
     distinction from jetsam or jetson. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

flotsam - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flotsam
      n 1: the floating wreckage of a ship [syn: flotsam, jetsam]

flotsam - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FLOTSAM, or FLOTSAN. A name for the goods which float upon the sea when a 
  ship is sunk, in distinction from Jetsam, (q.v.) and Legan. (q.v.) Bract. 
  lib. 2, c. 5; 5 Co. 106; Com. Dig. Wreck, A Bac. Ab. Court of Admiralty, B.