cast something loose

The following halftrack was backing, vortex gun cast loose and ready for trouble.

Purple had completed his check of the rigging and he was calling, "All right, cast loose!

It cast loose as if of its own accord and rose unaffected by the morning winds, to drift wherever chance might take it.

Pemberton signaled the Station to cast loose.

It was just another piece of flesh cast loose to live and die hopelessly amid the flotsam of this terrible world.

They all glowed red, the system's indicator that they had weapons cast loose.

The boy jumped into the boat and cast loose hastily.

Now the crew had cast loose and the boat was on her way.

Are your controls cast loose?

Soon the guns, cast loose to fire if needed, would break lose from their breechings, crashing forward to smash their way through the figurehead.