Definitions for jetsam

jetsam jet·sam

Spelling: [jet-suh m]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛt səm/

Jetsam is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in jetsam (aejmst).

Definitions for jetsam

noun

  1. goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.

Origin of jetsam

1560-70; alteration of jetson, syncopated variant of jettison

Examples for jetsam

The two Kabyles are Mohammed's, and the flotsam and jetsam is mine.

The crowd passes over him in a flood, leaving him like jetsam among the stones.

How many performances of Tristan does this make, Mr. jetsam?

This is my estate, and all flotsam and jetsam as is washed ashore is mine.

After being rescued from the ocean several times Buster spent the rest of the afternoon  collecting flotsam and jetsam.

But the jetsam is in the position of a passenger who has been carried off by the wrong train.

I am not a purposeless bit of jetsam flung out on the ocean of time to be tossed about helplessly.

I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.'

The flotsam and jetsam are mere shreds and fragments of wasted lives.

The shelving sandy beach is strewed with the jetsam of the storm.

Word Value for jetsam
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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