From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
Meanings
Cast up; thrown upward.
Old Saturn too with upcast eyes
Beheld his abdicated skies a. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, “To Sir Godfrey Knelle”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
Meanings
A cast; a throw.
When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
A current of air passed along such a shaft.
(Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.
(Scotland) A taunt; a reproach.
for what with the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi' the wee bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already. 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC: