See also: castoff and cast-off

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cast off (third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past cast off or casted off, past participle cast off)

  1. (transitive) To discard or reject something.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
  3. (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
  4. (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
    • 2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:
      To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.

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