Jettison
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(v.) To discard; To disencumber; as, to jettison goods in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
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1546. ekbole -- a throwing out, ie spec. a throwing overboard (of ...
... ie spec. a throwing overboard (of the cargo) NASB Word Usage jettison the cargo
(1). lighten the ship, jettison. From ekballo; ejection ...
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A Total Wreck, all Hands Saved
... They were still not without hope of saving the ship, though Paul had told them it
would be lost; and so they jettison the cargo of wheat from Alexandria. ...
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Eighth Tractate. On Free-Will and the Will of the One.
... Virtue does not follow upon occurrences as a saver of the emperilled; at its discretion
it sacrifices a man; it may decree the jettison of life, means, children ...
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Jettison (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (v.) To discard; To disencumber; as, to jettison goods
in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. ...Jettison (1 Occurrence). ...
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Jettison (1 Occurrence)

Acts 27:18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
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