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Webster 1913 Edition

Jettison

Jet′ti-son

.
Noun.
[See
Jetsam
.]
1.
(Mar. Law)
The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
2.
See
Jetsam
, 1.

Webster 1828 Edition

Jettison

JET'TISON

,
Noun.
In law and commerce, properly, the throwing of goods overboard in order to lighten a ship in a tempest for her preservation. The word may however be used for the goods thus thrown away, or adverbially.
Jetsam is where goods are cast into the sea, and there sink and remain under water; flotsam, is where they continue swimming; ligan is where they are sunk in the sea, but tied to a cork or buoy.

Definition 2024

jettison

jettison

English

Noun

jettison ‎(plural jettisons)

  1. (uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
  2. (countable) The action of jettisoning items.

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jettison ‎(third-person singular simple present jettisons, present participle jettisoning, simple past and past participle jettisoned)

  1. To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
    The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
    The jettisoning of fuel tanks.
  2. To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, iectātiōn-, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Cognate to jetsam

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