- an act of casting upward.
- the state of being cast upward.
- something that is cast or thrown up, as soil or earth in digging.
- a shaft or passage up which air passes, as from a mine (opposed to downcast).
- cast up; directed or thrown upward: The child looked at her father with upcast eyes.
- to cast up or upward.
- material cast or thrown up
- a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine
- (in a fault) the section of strata that has been displaced upwards
- directed or thrown upwards
- to throw or cast up
