aftercast

See also: after-cast

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ cast.

Noun

aftercast (plural aftercasts)

1. (art) A reproduction work made by reusing a cast.
2. A throw of dice after the game is ended.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aftercast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• artefacts

Middle English

Noun

aftercast

1. anything done too late
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Thus evere he pleith an aftercast
     Of al that the schal seie or do

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