undercast

Meanings

Noun

• An unbroken or nearly unbroken cloud layer below the point of observation.
• An air-passage crossing a road in a mine by means of an airtight box or channel beneath it.

Verb

• To allocate the parts in (a play or film) to insufficiently skilled actors.
• To throw under or beneath.

Origin

• From Middle English undercasten, equivalent to under- + cast.