Crossword-Solution: LIGAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ligan | n. | Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LIGAN | anagram | ALGIN, ALIGN, ALING, ANGLI, GALIN, GILAN, ILANG, LAING, LIANG |
We have 6 clues for the answer “LIGAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GOODS attached to buoy or cork so they may be found again | 1 answer |
| Goods sunk in sea with buoy attached. | 1 answer |
| Goods sunk in sea: Var. | 1 answer |
| OCEAN, things recoverable from the (law) | 1 answer |
| THINGS recoverable from the ocean (law) | 1 answer |
| Goods thrown overboard | 3 answers |
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Sentences with LIGAN (5)
Law) Defn: Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.
For even if they be cast overboard, without any mark or buoy, in order to lighten the ship, the owner is not by this act of necessity construed to have renounced his property[n]: much less can things ligan be supposed to be abandoned, since the owner has done all in his power, to assert and retain his property.
Some of his chief heroes tarried with him; namely, his son Oisin; the valiant Oscar, the son of Oisin; Gaul Mac Morna of the Mighty Deeds; Finn's shield-bearer, Skeabrac; Kylta Mac Ronan; Dermat O'Dyna of the Bright Face; Ligan Lumina the Swift-footed; Conan Mail of the Foul Tongue; and Finn Ban Mac Bresal.
During all this time Finn and his people kept them in view, but were not able to overtake them; and Ligan Lumina, one of the swiftest of the Fena, kept ahead of the others.
And Ligan now found that he could neither help his friends nor free himself, for his two hands clung fast to the tail of the horse.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1944–1983).