verb

• (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
  "Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre[…]."
• (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
  "As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers)[…]."
• (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
  "So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […]"
• (physical) To move, or be moved, away.

noun

• (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
  "I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success."
• (art) The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
  "He’s in the cast of Oliver."
• (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
  "As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […]"
• (firearms) The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
  "Cast is the measurement of the central line of the gun and the stock’s butt. If the butt is tilted slightly to the left of the central line, it’s called “cast on.” If the butt is tilted slightly to the right of the central line, it’s called “cast off.”"