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Grammar : Adj
Spell : kast, kahst
Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst



Definition of cast-off

Origin :
  • 1741, from verbal phrase (c.1400), from cast (v.) + off (adv.). From 1746 as a past participle adjective.
  • As in old : adj obsolete, outdated
  • As in olden : adj old
Example sentences :
  • And he waves his hand up toward Aunt Sophrony's cast-off palace.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Exuviation: the act of molting: the cast-off skin or exuvium.
  • Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
  • The water-line is strewn with cast-off salmon heads and entrails.
  • Extract from : « Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska » by Charles Warren Stoddard
  • Harriette, the cast-off Harriette of last year, bobbed forward.
  • Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely
  • A snake might more easily crawl back into his cast-off skin.
  • Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
  • Most of the winter he slept in a hedge under a cast-off sail.
  • Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith
  • I require neither your money, your food, nor your cast-off raiment.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Cast-off the topsail sheets and let everything go by the run!
  • Extract from : « The White Squall » by John Conroy Hutcheson
  • It so happened that my master had gone to Capua, to dispose of some cast-off finery.
  • Extract from : « Gryll Grange » by Thomas Love Peacock
  • We read with eagerness the cast-off newspapers of the first-floor gentlemen.
  • Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill

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