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Что (кто) такое flotsam - определение

SPECIFIC KINDS OF SHIPWRECK
Flotsam; Jetsam; Flotsam & jetsam; Flotsom and jetsom; Derelict (maritime); Jetsam and flotsam; Flotsam and jetsam; Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict; Jettison (shipping); Ligan or lagan
  • Flotsam on a beach at [[Terschelling]], [[Wadden Sea]]
  • A [[buoy]] is sufficient to retain claim to an attached artifact

flotsam         
1.
Flotsam is rubbish, for example bits of wood and plastic, that is floating on the sea or has been left by the sea on the shore.
The water was full of flotsam and refuse.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
You can use flotsam and jetsam to refer to small or unimportant items that are found together, especially ones that have no connection with each other.
...cornflake packets, bottles, and all the flotsam and jetsam of the kitchen.
PHRASE
flotsam         
Floating wreckage from a shipwreck.
Flotsam         
·noun ·Alt. of Flotson.

Википедия

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict

In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are specific kinds of shipwreck. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. A shipwreck is defined as the remains of a ship that has been wrecked—a destroyed ship at sea, whether it has sunk or is floating on the surface of the water.

Примеры употребления для flotsam
1. Local fisherman discovered the shipwreck, raised the alarm and rescued 23 people found clinging to flotsam.
2. Some are already gone, leaving bones and coffin handles as ghoulish flotsam.
3. The usual landmarks are gone, or are now piles of flotsam, and it‘s disorienting.
4. There is debris everywhere: chunks of asphalt, sheet metal, roofing tiles, uprooted trees, unidentifiable flotsam.
5. "I don‘t think Demos guarded sufficiently against being the flotsam and jetsam.