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
This I saw by the faint upcast rays of the lanterns they had lit for guidance.
From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
There is a heaving in the broken, sunless bottoms; the continents and islands are upcast, rugged and black, shaking the roaring Seas from their flanks.
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
She said it with infinite sadness in her voice and an upcasting of eyes that were swimming.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
The roguish upcasting of starry eyes, and the deprecating little manner, tied my tongue for the instant.
From The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey
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