Cast

• cast: in hunting, the spreading out of hounds in different directions in search of a lost scent (hence, to cast: (of dogs or huntsmen) to spread out and search in different directions for a lost scent)
  • Joyce's ref here: The Quarterly Review, vol. 238, 267: 'Reynard the Fox': 'The fox had vanished... Exhaustive casts along the shore failed to recover the line' (i.e. foxhunt) → dogfox