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Noun: flotsam  flót-sum
  1. The floating wreckage of a ship
    "Rescuers searched the ocean for survivors and flotsam from the sunken vessel";
    - jetsam
     
  2. Worthless or discarded objects
    "The attic was full of flotsam from decades past"

Derived forms: flotsams

Type of: wreckage

Encyclopedia: Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict