Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Flotsam"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flotsam
n : the floating wreckage of a ship [syn: {jetsam}]
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