Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A discarded person or thing; a castaway.
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Examples
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Living, this brain-sick beast will make of you his plaything -- and, a little later, his broken, soiled and cast-by plaything.
The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act James Branch Cabell 1918
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--- ` ` Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now?
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Effie, seating herself upright. — “Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now? —
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-- "Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now?
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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-- "Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now?
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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