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backcast

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back⋅cast

[bak-kast, -kahst]
–noun
a short backward and often upward swing of a fishing rod, its line, and its lure in preparation for the cast that immediately follows.

Origin:
1570–80, for an earlier sense; back 2 + cast1
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