Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To move, or be moved, away. · To throw. · To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. · To throw down or aside.
Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
An act of throwing. · The number rolled on a die when it is thrown. · An instance of throwing out a fishing line. · Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp. The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.
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