8 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
verb throw away, of something encumbering
verb throw as from an airplane
originFrom Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0