Flotsam

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flotsam \Flot"sam\, Flotson \Flot"son\, n. [F. flotter to float.
     See {FFlotilla}, and cf. {Jetsam}.] (Law)
     Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in
     distinction from jetsam or jetson. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flotsam
       n : the floating wreckage of a ship [syn: {jetsam}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FLOTSAM, or FLOTSAN. A name for the goods which float upon the sea when a 
  ship is sunk, in distinction from Jetsam, (q.v.) and Legan. (q.v.) Bract. 
  lib. 2, c. 5; 5 Co. 106; Com. Dig. Wreck, A Bac. Ab. Court of Admiralty, B.