- goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.
- that portion of the equipment or cargo of a vessel thrown overboard to lighten her, as during a storm
- another word for flotsam (def. 2)
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