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sand-cast

[ sand-kast, -kahst ]

verb (used with object)

, sand-cast, sand-cast·ing.
  1. to produce (a casting) by pouring molten metal into sand molds.


sand-cast

verb

  1. tr to produce (a casting) by pouring molten metal into a mould of sand
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈsand-ˌcasting, noun
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Other Words From

  • sand casting noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sand-cast1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences

The 49-year-old Jadot says his aim is to create an “autonomous hive” in which craftspeople can exhibit together — last month, most of Zaventem’s members showed their work at the second annual Collectible, a design fair in Brussels — and occasionally collaborate: Declercq recently teamed up with Slavov on a lamp made of black wood and sand-cast bronze for Declercq’s spring collection.

They were fabricated from sand-cast sheets of clear polycarbonate.

Bonnie B. Collier fills a box with sprouting potatoes made of clay; Joan Danziger uses similar material to beget a merry-go-round frog; and Marie Ringwald edges a sand-cast cross in neon.

In the dining room, a sand-cast Murano glass chandelier by Lusive Lighting hangs from a metallic, silver-painted ceiling.

The group of third-graders from Southside also gathered under the Large Arch on the Bartholomew County Public Library Plaza and looked above at the sand-cast bronze creation.

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