Definitions for "Cast off"
To untie or loose a rope or line.
To release the ship from her mooring
the act of releasing the boat from a dock, anchor, another boat, anything that has been keeping the boat in one place
Keywords:  gent, lady, clockwise, cauled, swung
Returning from Down the Center and Back Gent places his right arm around the Lady he has Balanced and Swung and they turn clockwise. Lady (Active) places her left arm around the Gent she has Balanced and Swung and they turn counter-clockwise. Both lines should now be facing the other again. Each Active person has moved one position to the Foot of the Set and each Inactive one position to the Head of the Set.
Prior to this movement, couples, or one couple only as in the High Cauled Cap, will have danced side-by-side across the set. To cast off, partners separate, the gents moving anti-clockwise and the ladies clockwise to meet again at some defined point within the set.
Keywords:  pushy, boss, rid, shed, clothes
get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
make the last row of stitches when knitting
Term used for the technique for finishing off by securing the stitches at the end of a piece of knitting
Keywords:  typeset, copy, calculation, space, take
a calculation determining how much space copy will take up when typeset.
Keywords:  let
To let go.