EGAVE

sidecast

Meaning

  1. verb To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.
  2. verb To cast a fishing line at an angle of 90 degrees using a special type of reel that rotates on its rod.
  3. noun Debris left next to a construction site from sidecasting.
  4. noun A mode of using a suction dredge that sidecasts the material that is dredged up using a pipeline to the bank or by jetting.
  5. noun A type of reel with a spool that rotates on a fixed base through 90 degrees to allow sidecasting.
  6. noun A calculation or figure that is listed in a table beside a drawing that gives a value which cannot be read directly from the drawing.

Similar words

side-cast side cast sandcast sprue roughcast backfill clamshell stope shit-can mudcap

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