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▪ I. ˈcast-off, ppl. a. and n.1
[f. cast ppl. a.]
A. ppl. a. Thrown off, rejected from use, discarded: as clothes, a favourite, a lover, etc.
1746W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. (1757) 40 Cast-off Hunters, turn'd upon the Road for Post Chaise Service. 1755Connoisseur No. 80 A cast-off suit of my wife's. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 139 To strut at his heels, wear his cast-off clothes. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 235 The cast-off extravagances of Goethe and Schiller. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. iv. 169 The worn and cast-off skin. 1853Rogers Ecl. Faith 44 To array your thoughts in the tatters of the cast-off Bible.
B. n.
1. A person or thing that is cast-off or abandoned as worthless or useless. (For the plural cast-offs is more according to analogy.)
1741Richardson Pamela I. 49 And how..must they have look'd, like old Cast-offs. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 82 Thou shalt be From the city of the free Thyself a cast-off. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Cast-offs, landsmen's clothes. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxvii. 7 The objects of his contemptuous reprobation, his everlasting cast-offs. 1884Longm. Mag. Apr. 607 Our horses, casts-off from the flat.
2. Printing. A calculation of the amount of space which will be required by a given amount of copy. (Cf. cast v. 79 j.)
1898J. Southward Mod. Printing i. xlii. 263 These two lines must be reckoned for in the cast off. 1917F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop iii. 32 If the cast-off leaves but two or three lines on the last page, it is better to have the few previous pages each a line long. 1934Proc. Brit. Acad. XIX. 388 In February 1903 fifty Letters of Erasmus were dispatched to the Press for a ‘cast-off’.
▪ II. cast-off, n.2 Gunnery.
[f. cast n. + off.]
The ‘twist’ of a gun-stock, the extent to which the stock is thrown laterally out of the line of the longitudinal axis of the barrel.
1881Greener Gun 249 He adjusts the bend or crook of the gun, and the amount of cast-off. Ibid. 432 The object of the cast-off is to bring the centre of the barrels in a line with the shooter's eye. |