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Jettison   Listen
noun
Jettison  n.  
1.
(Mar. Law) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
2.
See Jetsam, 1.





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"Jettison" Quotes from Famous Books



... unpopularity which that honest herb still suffers on American soil. Coffee, yes; coffee at all times; but no one will take any but the most perfunctory interest in the preparation of tea. I found the harbour; I traversed wharf after wharf; but found no visible record of the most momentous act of jettison since Jonah. In the top room, however, of Faneuil Hall, in the Honourable Artillery Company's headquarters, the more salient incidents of the struggle which followed are all depicted by enthusiastic, if not too talented, ...
— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas


Words linked to "Jettison" :   toss out, cast away, discard, chuck out, toss away, dispose, toss, cast aside, throw away, cast out, throw out, throw


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