CAST ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast on mean? 

• CAST ON (verb)
  The verb CAST ON has 1 sense:

1. make the first row of stitches when knitting

  Familiarity information: CAST ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make the first row of stitches when knitting

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "cast on" is one way to...):

run up; sew; sew together; stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)

Domain category:

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)

 Context examples 

He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I therefore told the officer, that having been shipwrecked on the coast of Balnibarbi, and cast on a rock, I was received up into Laputa, or the flying island (of which he had often heard), and was now endeavouring to get to Japan, whence I might find a convenience of returning to my own country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He cast on me a glance of surprise; but without answering, he cut a thick slice from his loaf, and gave it to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While such honey-dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on this more open quarter, my step is stayed—not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a warning fragrance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How provoking! exclaimed Miss Ingram: you tiresome monkey! (apostrophising Adele), who perched you up in the window to give false intelligence? and she cast on me an angry glance, as if I were in fault.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)