cast off vs don

cast off

verb
  • To discard or reject something. 

  • To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way. 

  • To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle. 

  • To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy. 

don

verb
  • To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire. 

noun
  • An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents. 

  • A mafia boss. 

  • Any man, bloke, dude. 

  • A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. 

How often have the words cast off and don occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )