backcast intransitive verb backcast; backcasting; backcasts
… there was no place to strip my line, let alone backcast, and I retreated to the tent, waiting for light. — Peter Matthiessen, Harper's Magazine, 1 June 1993
Standing now, closing in, I waved the bamboo rod like a semaphore—backcasting once, twice—and then threw the line. — John McPhee, New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2010
First Known Use of backcast
1816, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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