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Definition of Downcasts
1. downcast [n] - See also: downcast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downcasts
Literary usage of Downcasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1867)
"Black smoke from the downcasts continued about five minutes, and then suddenly
ceased, and the fresh air began driving down freely. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"He said that in the Fife coal-field, the downcasts wero almost all on the south
side of the fracture», and amounted altogether to nearly 2000 feet ; and in ..."
3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"33.—NORMAL FAULTS IN HORIZONTAL STRATA. direction in which they are working.
Thus the faults (F1, F2) shown in Fig. 33 would be described as downcasts or ..."
4. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"33. — NORMAL FAULTS IN HORIZONTAL STRATA. direction in which they are working.
Thus the faults (F1, F2) shown in Fig. 33 would be described as downcasts or ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"Since the Spray, Gardner, Dallas, and Sacramento shafts are natural downcasts,
the mine fans were placed underground so as to take advantage of these ..."
6. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... sandstone appears; but its presence in its proper, or rather regular position,
is, from the frequent downcasts of the strata, marked only at one place. ..."
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