offcast

== English == === Alternative forms === off-cast === Etymology === From Middle English ofcasten, equivalent to off- +‎ cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”). The noun is possibly derived from Middle English ofcast (“the refuse of plants”). === Verb === offcast (third-person singular simple present offcasts, present participle offcasting, simple past and past participle offcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) offcasted) (transitive) To cast off; shed. (transitive, theater, television) To remove from the cast of a production. === Noun === offcast (plural offcasts) That which is rejected as useless. === Anagrams === cast off, cast-off, castoff