upcast
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Is upcast a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (bowling) A cast; a throw.Examples: "When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away"
2. (mining) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
3. (mining) A current of air passed along such a shaft.
4. (Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.Scotland
5. (Scotland) A taunt; a reproach.Examples: "for what with the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi' the wee bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already."Scotland
6. (computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.Scotlandtransitive
3. (transitive, computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.Antonyms: downcasttransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary