surfcast

surfcast verb: to fish by casting into the surf near the shoreline.

Verb

surfcast (third-person singular simple present surfcasts, present participle surfcasting, simple past and past participle surfcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) surfcasted)

(intransitive) To fish by casting into the surf near the shoreline.
- "From the beach? You surfcasted?” She sighed. “You think I can't surfcast because I'm a crip? For your information, I've hauled in 50-pound stripers from my wheelchair!”2006, Richard Rosenthal, The Dandelion War, →ISBN, page 50

Noun

surfcast (plural surfcasts)

An instance of surfcasting.
- Night fishing is the best time to fish here, and you'll see lots of surfcasts tossing Danny Plugs.2010, Tom Keer, Flyfisher's Guide to the New England Coast, →ISBN, page 178

Forms of surfcast

Verb
third-person singular present	surfcasts
present participle	surfcasting
past participle	surfcast
past	surfcast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes	surfcasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes	surfcasted
alternative form	surf cast
alternative form	surf-cast
Noun
plural	surfcasts

Origin of surfcast

From surf + cast.

Words formed from surfcast

surfcaster

Questions about surfcast

What does surfcast mean?: Surfcast means to fish by casting into the surf near the shoreline.
What part of speech is surfcast?: Surfcast can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of surfcast?: The past tense of surfcast is surfcast.

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