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noun
Upcast  n.  
1.
(Bowling) A cast; a throw.
2.
(Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.
3.
An upset, as from a carriage. (Scot.)
4.
A taunt; a reproach. (Scot.)





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"Upcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... Geology of Pennsylvania page 897.) An hypothesis which attributes such a change of position to a succession of movements, is far preferable to any theory which assumes each fault to have been accomplished by a single upcast or downthrow of several thousand feet. For we know that there are operations now in progress, at great depths in the interior of the earth, by which both large and small tracts of ground are made to rise ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... hollow hill he turned him spear in hand And hurled it on the flank thereof, and as an ordered band By whatso door the winds rush out o'er earth in whirling blast, And driving down upon the sea its lowest deeps upcast. The East, the West together there, the Afric, that doth hold A heart fulfilled of stormy rain, huge billows shoreward rolled. Therewith came clamour of the men and whistling through the shrouds And heaven and day all suddenly ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... He schal be prymate & prynce of pure clergye, & of my reuenest lorde[gh] e rydde he schal & of my reme e rychest to ryde wyth myseluen, 1572 Out-taken bare two & e{n}ne he e rydde.'" [Sidenote: As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists.] is cry wat[gh] vp-caste, & er comen mony Clerkes out of caldye at ke{n}nest wer knauen, As e sage sathrapas at sorsory coue; 1576 Wyche[gh] & walkyries ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various


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