What is the difference between horse and cast?

In context|nautical|lang=en terms the difference between horse and cast

is that horse is (nautical) a rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; foot ropes while cast is (nautical) to heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.

In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between horse and cast

is that horse is (obsolete) to get on horseback while cast is (obsolete) to plan, intend (to do something).

As nouns the difference between horse and cast

is that horse is a hoofed mammal, equus ferus caballus , often used throughout history for riding and draft work or horse can be (uncountable|slang|dated) heroin while cast is an act of throwing.

As verbs the difference between horse and cast

is that horse is to frolic, to act mischieviously (usually followed by "around") while cast is .

horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.

#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

#*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.

#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

#(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.

# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.

#(lb) A large person.

#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

(lb) Equipment with legs.

#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.

#A frame with legs, used to support something.

Equipment.

#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

#A breastband for a leadsman.

#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

#A jackstay.

#:(Totten)

(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

*1962 , , 00:15:20

*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).

Usage notes

* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse

Synonyms

* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight

Hyponyms

* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion

Derived terms

* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horse

Verb

(hors)

To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)

"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.

* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :

I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.

To provide with a horse.

* Shakespeare

being better horsed , outrode me

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

* 1888 , :

He horsed himself well.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

* 1608 , , II. i. 203:

Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

To take or carry on the back.

* S. Butler

the keeper, horsing a deer

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone

So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.

Derived terms

* horse around * unhorse

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.

Alright, mate, got any horse ?

Synonyms

* (heroin) H, smack

External links

* (wikipedia "horse")

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cast

English

Verb

To move, or be moved, away.

#* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke

#*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) :

#*:Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre.

#*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , p.262:

#*:The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow.

#To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

#*1526 , (Bible) , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 4:

#*:As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers).

#Specifically, to throw down or aside.

#*, II.xii:

#*:So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast , / That all in peeces it was broken fond.

#*1611 , (Bible) , Authorized Version, (w) VI.30:

#*:it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

#*1930 , "Sidar the Madman", Time , 19 Dec.:

#*:Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.

#*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:

#*:Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.

#(label) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.

#*1822 , "Life of Donald McBane", (w, Blackwood's Magazine) , vol.12, p.745:

#*:when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons.

#*2002 , Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian , 2 March:

#*:You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

#(label) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.

#(label) To vomit.

#*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

#*:These versesmake me ready to cast .

#(label) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

#*(Bible), (w) xix.48

#*:Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.

#(label) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

#* (1665-1728)

#*:Thiscasts a sulphureous smell.

To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).

*1595 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , I.11:

*:She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}

To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.

*1594 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

*, II.17:

*:I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.

To predict, to decide, to plan.

#(label) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).

#*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:

#*:he isa perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society, 2012, p.332:

#*:John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.

#*1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), (Quinx) , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:

#*:He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.

#(label) To plan, intend.

#*, Book VII.2:

#*:"Fayre damesell, I thanke you hartely," seyde Sir Launcelot, "but truly," seyde he, "I caste me never to be wedded man."

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:

#*:I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

#* (1628–1699)

#*:The cloisterhad, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].

#(label) To assign (a role in a play or performance).

#(label) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

#To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

#*(Bible), (w) i.29

#*:Shecast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

#(label) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:The government I cast upon my brother.

#*(Bible), (Psalms) iv. 22

#*:Cast thy burden upon the Lord.

#(label) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

#* (1773-1850)

#*:She was cast to be hanged.

#*Dr. (Henry More) (1614-1687)

#*:Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast .

#To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

#*:How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.

*1950 , "A Global View", Time , 24 April:

*:The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

*1960 , (Lawrence Durrell), :

*:A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.

(label) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.

*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

*:being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , V.20:

*:The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.

To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.

*1923 , "Rodin's Death", Time , 24 March:

*:One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.

# To stereotype or electrotype.

To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).

*(Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)

*:Stuff is said to cast or warp whenit alters its flatness or straightness.

(label) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.

To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).

(label) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.

(label) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.

*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:

*:He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

(label) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

(some are still missing examples)

(label) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.

Derived terms

* cast away * cast iron * cast off * cast on * castable * casting call * casting couch * casting director * cast the first stone * continuous casting * cross-cast * ne'er cast a clout til May be out * the die is cast

Noun

(en noun)

An act of throwing.

Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

* Dryden

a cast of dreadful dust

A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts .''

The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

He’s in the cast of Oliver.

The cast was praised for a fine performance.

The casting procedure.

The men got into position for the cast , two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

An object made in a mould.

The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

The mould used to make cast objects

A plaster cast was made of his face .

(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:

As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].

A squint.

* 1847 , John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery , p. 389, paragraph 1968:

The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 7:

Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.

Visual appearance.

Her features had a delicate cast to them.

The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:

I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.

An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.

Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.

A group of crabs.

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What is the difference between horse and cast?

In context|nautical|lang=en terms the difference between horse and cast

In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between horse and cast

As nouns the difference between horse and cast

As verbs the difference between horse and cast

horse

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