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cast off (or cast something off)1 Knitting Take the stitches off the needle by looping each over the next to finish the edge: when the piece of knitting is long enough, cast off cast off a few stitches at the armhole...- Or perhaps a hand-knitted sweater that looks like granny just cast it off her knitting needles for her favourite grandson?
- It's a bit nerve-wracking, because you can really see the frill until after the neck edge is cast off.
- Somewhere over the Atlantic on Thursday night, I cast off the last stitch.
2Set a boat or ship free from her moorings: the boatmen cast off and rowed downriver...- As the last lines were cast off the ship edged away from the wharf.
- The ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them.
- By the time that safety was reached Fitz had picked up the shivering victim, cast off the mooring lines and was motoring out of the marina.
2.1 ( cast off) (Of a boat or ship) be set free from her moorings: the ferry cast off and made a beeline for the pier...- He had come to this conclusion about five minutes into his journey, just after the ship had cast off from the dock.
- It's anchors away as the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry service casts off for its yearly service across the Wyre estuary.
- At the otherwise silent hotel, I am woken at 6.30 am by the screech of gulls as the mackerel boats cast off from the harbour and head out on the early-morning tide.
3Let loose a hunting hound or hawk. 4 Printing Estimate the space that will be taken in print by manuscript copy.The master printer would decide whether the text would be set into type by a single compositor or by a number working simultaneously, in which case the copy would have to be cast off. See parent entry: cast |