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A throw; a cast.
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Hence, a cast of herrings, haddocks, or other fish; four, as a tale of counting fish.
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A cast lamb, kid, calf, foal, or the like; the young of an animal when brought forth prematurely.
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The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilize them.
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A cast or twist; the twist or bending which occurs in wood in drying; the state of having a cast, or of being warped or twisted.
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The threads which are extended lengthwise in a loom, and across which the woof is thrown in the process of weaving.
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Nautical, a rope, smaller than a cable, used in towing, or in moving a ship by attachment to something fixed; a towing-line.
To cast; throw; hurl.
To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
To bring forth (young) prematurely: said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
In rope-making, to run (the yarn of the winches) into hauls to be tarred. See haul of yarn, under haul.
To weave; hence, in a figurative sense, to fabricate; plot.
To give a cast or twist to; turn or twist out of shape or out of straightness, as by unequal contraction, etc.; contort.
To turn aside from the true direction; cause to bend or incline; pervert.
Nautical, to move into some desired place or position by hauling on a rope or warp which has been fastened to something fixed, as a buoy, anchor, or other ship at or near that place or position: as, to warp a ship into harbor or to her berth.
In agriculture, to fertilize, as poor or barren land, by means of artificial inundation from rivers which hold large quantities of earthy matter, or warp (see warp, n., 4), in suspension.
To change.
To turn, twist, or be twisted out of straightness or the proper shape.
To turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; deviate; swerve.
To change for the worse; turn in a wrong direction.
To weave; hence, to plot.
To fly with a twisting or bending to this side and that; deflect the course of flight; turn about in flying, as birds or insects.
To wind yarn off bobbins, to form the warp of a web. See the quotation.
To slink; cast the young prematurely, as cows.
Nautical, to work forward by means of a rope fastened to something fixed, as in moving from one berth to another in a harbor, or in making one's way out of a harbor in a calm, or against a contrary wind.