cast up
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[edit]Verb
[edit]cast up (third-person singular simple present casts up, present participle casting up, simple past and past participle cast up)
- (transitive) to wash something onto the shore.
- (transitive, dated) to compute.
- 1771, Arthur Burns, Geodaesia Improved:
- When the Columns N S E W, are compleated, cast up the Figures in the Columns N and S, and also those in the Columns E and W.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 11”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account.
- (transitive) to bring up as a reproach.
- (transitive, somewhat archaic) to construct by digging.
- to cast up earthworks
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 62:10:
- Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
- (transitive) To apply a cast to a broken limb.
- The doctor cast up my leg.
Translations
[edit]to compute
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