casting up

Verb

cast up (third-person singular simple present casts up, present participle casting up, simple past and past participle cast up)

1. (transitive) To wash something onto the shore.
2. (dated, transitive) 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
3. (transitive) To bring up as a reproach.
4. (archaic, transitive) To construct by digging.
   • to cast up earthworks
5. (transitive) To apply a cast to a broken limb.
   • The doctor cast up my leg.