castoff

castoff
/kast"awf', -of', kahst"-/, adj.
1. thrown away; rejected; discarded: castoff clothing.
n.
2. a person or thing that has been cast off.
3. Print. the estimate by a compositor of how many pages copy will occupy when set in type.
[1735-45; adj., n. use of v. phrase cast off]

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