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noun goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered
originPer Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (“law of the sea”), from Old Norse lǫg (“law”) and Latin maris (“of the sea”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0