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Cast off

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Verb
  1. 1
    To discard or reject something. transitive

    "However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence."

  2. 2
    to remove wordnet
  3. 3
    To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way. ambitransitive
  4. 4
    make the last row of stitches when knitting wordnet
  5. 5
    To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle. intransitive
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  1. 6
    To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy. historical

    "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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