Sidecast

Quick meaning: Sidecast is a verb meaning (engineering) To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.

Meaning

(engineering) To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.

More Meanings

1. (fishing) To cast a fishing line at an angle of 90 degrees using a special type of reel that rotates on its rod.
2. (engineering) Debris left next to a construction site from sidecasting.
3. (engineering) A mode of using a suction dredge that sidecasts the material that is dredged up using a pipeline to the bank or by jetting.
4. (fishing) A type of reel with a spool that rotates on a fixed base through 90 degrees to allow sidecasting.
5. (drafting) A calculation or figure that is listed in a table beside a drawing that gives a value which cannot be read directly from the drawing.

Example Sentences

Areas where sidecasting would be done are typically steep.

I bait his hook with a plump and squirmy shrimp. With one arm, he sidecasts between two spindly roots.

The dragline sidecasts material into a 'wet' stockpile located on-shore, immediately adjacent to the excavation.

In areas of moderate slopes, recontouring can be accomplished by salvaging sidecast deposited during road construction.

Word Forms

• sidecasts
• sidecasting
• sidecasted
• side-cast
• side cast

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include side-cast, sandcast, sprue, backfill, clamshell, stope.

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