sidecast

Meanings

Verb

• To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.
• To cast a fishing line at an angle of 90 degrees using a special type of reel that rotates on its rod.

Noun

• Debris left next to a construction site from sidecasting.
• A mode of using a suction dredge that sidecasts the material that is dredged up using a pipeline to the bank or by jetting.
• A type of reel with a spool that rotates on a fixed base through 90 degrees to allow sidecasting.
• 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.

Origin

• side + cast