flotsam, jetsam
(noun) the floating wreckage of a ship
jetsam
(noun) the part of a ship’s equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm
Source: WordNet® 3.1
jetsam (countable and uncountable, plural jetsams)
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
• matjes
Source: Wiktionary
Jet"sam, Jet"son, n. Etym: [F. jeter to throw: cf. OF. getaison a throwing. Cf. Flotsam, Jettison.]
1. (Mar. Law)
Definition: Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.
2. Jettison. See Jettison, 1.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 July 2025
(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
