cast up

present singular third person casts up · participle present casting up

1. transitiveTo wash something onto the shore.
2. datedtransitiveTo compute.

   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.

   1771, Arthur Burns, Geodaesia Improved

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   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.

   1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 11”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

3. transitiveTo bring up as a reproach.
4. archaictransitiveTo construct by digging.

   to cast up earthworks

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   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.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 62:10

5. transitiveTo apply a cast to a broken limb.

   The doctor cast up my leg.