cast up
verb1
To wash something onto the shore.
2
Dated To 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:
- 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
To bring up as a reproach.
4
Archaic To construct by digging.
- to cast up earthworks
- 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
To apply a cast to a broken limb.
- The doctor cast up my leg.