flotsam, jetsam
(noun) the floating wreckage of a ship
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flotsam (countable and uncountable, plural flotsams)
Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
• fotmals
Source: Wiktionary
Flot"sam, Flot"son, n. Etym: [F. flotter to float. See FFlotilla, and cf. Jetsam.] (Law)
Definition: Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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