{ ||Jet"sam (?), ||Jet"son (?), }
n. [F. jeter to throw: cf. OF.
getaison a throwing. Cf. Flotsam,
Jettison.]
1.(Mar. Law)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.