To tack, cruise about.
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
A corset.
To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
To intercept.
To arrange or prepare.
To remove, omit.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
To oust, to replace.
To separate from a herd.
To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
To leave suddenly.
Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.