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castaway

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1. castaway - Noun

2. castaway - Adjective

Meaning

One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.

Of no value; rejected; useless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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No, reprobate! You are a castaway - be off, or I'll hurt you seriously! I'll have you all modeled in wax and clay; and the first who passes the limits I fix, shall - I'll not say what he shall be done to - but, you'll see! Go, I'm looking at you! Emily Brontë

Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one, In Summer's castaway is strangely clad. William Henry Davies

Contact era After the castaway Cabeza de Vaca of the ill-fated Narváez expedition returned to Spain, he described to the Court that the New World was the "richest country in the world." Source: Internet

Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and since Defoe was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman and learned of his experiences as a castaway. Source: Internet

Tim Severin 's book Seeking Robinson Crusoe (2002) unravels a much wider and more plausible range of potential sources of inspiration, and concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Henry Pitman as the most likely. Source: Internet

Both itineraries are capped off with a day at Castaway Cay. Source: Internet

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