upcast
Americannoun
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an act of casting upward.
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the state of being cast upward.
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something that is cast or thrown up, as soil or earth in digging.
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a shaft or passage up which air passes, as from a mine (opposed to downcast).
adjective
verb (used with object)
noun
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material cast or thrown up
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a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine Compare downcast
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geology (in a fault) the section of strata that has been displaced upwards
adjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of upcast
Example Sentences
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There she is with her upcast eyes, unknowable sorrow and perfect sympathy.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
Thus, a miner working along the coal-seam S, from a to b, would describe the fault, f, as an upcast, since he would have to mine to a higher level to catch his coal again.
From Geology by Geikie, James
Round about the bed shafts of the mine, the downcast and the upcast, a little space was held voluntarily clear and half a dozen men in coaly flannels were standing there.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
From each tree The feather'd kinds peep down to look on me; And beasts with upcast eyes forsake their shade, And gaze as if I were to be obey'd.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
The usual form of ventilating furnace is a plain fire grate placed under an arch, and communicating with the upcast shaft by an inclined drift.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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