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surf cast en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of surfcast.
    alt of surfcast
    • While it is certainly true that the angler's physical size confers some advantage with regard to achieving a long cast, most surf casts will be well short of the distances (500 to 600 feet) reached by professional casters in tournaments. 2011, Stan Ulanski, Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, →ISBN:
    • A fisherman, getting in his last surf casts before the rain, offers it to me. “Blues are too oily,” he says, complaining about the absence of striped bass this year. 2014, William Powers, New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City, →ISBN, page 186:

Forms

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surf casts Number=Plur lexicographic

surf cast en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of surfcast.
    alt of surfcast
    • It looks like he's going fishing off the pier but maybe he surf casts. 2013, Henry Broder, Killing Little Ralphie: A Coney Island Story, →ISBN:
    • So many fishermen surf casted in that rough, rocky ocean that it was always like Easter when we snorkeled only the eggs we hunted were gray, lead fishing weights of various shapes and sizes. 2010, J. Arthur Rath III, Slices of Life in Hawaii - Volume 1, →ISBN:
    • According to the old fisherman, who always came to that same spot each day to surf cast and look for the perfect striped bass, water came up through the center of the earth from China. 2003, Chris Komisarjevsky, Reina Komisarjevsky, Peanut Butter and Jelly Management, →ISBN:

Forms

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surf casting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
surf cast Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
surf cast Tense=Past lexicographic
surf casted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part common, error-unknown-tag, proscribed, sometimes lexicographic
surf casted Tense=Past common, error-unknown-tag, proscribed, sometimes lexicographic
surf casts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic