The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to “Lands in the ocean”, 5 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : JETSAM
jetsam – n
the part of a ship’s equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm
SYNONYMS
leavings, remnant ashes, debris, detritus, flotsam, remains, residue, rubble, ruins, wreck, wreckage
IN A SENTENCE
Everything was saved by default, so all the flotsam and jetsam of daily work was captured in a sort of running ledger.
Perfumers rely on jetsam ambergris that washes ashore; these little fatty blobs are worth thousands of dollars.
ETYMOLOGY
1560s, jottsome “act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship,” alteration and contraction of Middle English jetteson, from Anglo-French getteson, Old French getaison “a throwing” (see jettison). Intermediate forms were jetson, jetsome; the form perhaps was deformed by influence of flotsam. From 1590s as “goods thrown overboard;” figurative use by 1861. For distinction of meaning, see flotsam.
More Clues
- ISLES Lands in the ocean
- ILES Lands in the ocean, to Henri
- ISLETS Lands in the sea
- DITCHES Abandons lands in the sea
- JETSAM Takes plane (American), which lands in the sea
- BRAES High lands, in the Highlands
- HOMER It lands in the stands
- ISLET Land in the ocean
- ARABIA In song, sailor lands in The Middle East
- AITS Lands in the river?
- EMIRATES Lands in the Persian Gulf
- CROUTON Accepting defeat, prisoner lands in the soup
- ISLANDS Lands in the Caribbean
- LAX Where Hoffman lands in ‘The Graduate’
- I S L S Lands in the water, for short?
- ESTATE Lands in the Oriental express
- ASIA Initially, American’s secret intelligence aircraft lands in the east
- OPTIONAL Take it or leave it if one lands in the wrong platoon
- T W A JFK lander in the previous century
- ATLAS Lands in book form
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