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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1469-1531, 1648
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Incasting, vbl. n. [ME. incastynge (1398).] Casting, throwing, putting, digging, etc., in, in various senses of the verb Cast. — 1469 Acts II. 95/2.
The haly day … brokin … for punding of malis & annualis, incasting and owt casting of tennandis 1501 Dunferm. B. Rec. 117.
Tveching the vrangvis dovnecasting of ane brig … and the incasting of erde & filtht 1531 Reg. Privy S. II. 129/1.
The gift of the office of incasting of the wechtis at the trone of Edinburgh 1648 Aberd. Council Lett. III. 101.
[To] remember concerning the incasting of the trinches
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