lagan noun.
['lag(ǝ)n] Also ligan
['lɪg-].
M16.[Old French (whence medieval Latin laganum) perh. from Old Norse lagn-, as in lagn, genit. lagnar drag-net, from Germanic base of LAY verb1.]Law. Goods or wreckage lying on the bed of the sea. Cf.
FLOTSAM,
JETSAM.
■ lagander noun (long
obsolete exc.
Hist.) an official who took charge of lagan or wreckage
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