cast something ↔ up phrasal verb literary (
see also cast)
if the sea casts something up, it carries it onto the shore:
A body had been cast up on the rocks. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
cast up v.,
literary 1. To turn or direct upward; raise.
The dying missionary cast up his eyes to heaven and prayed. 2. archaic To do sums; do a problem in addition; add.
Cast up 15, 43, 27, and 18. When John had all the figures, he cast them up. [TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲