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INCAST, n., v. [′ɪnkast]

I. n. A quantity of anything given by a seller to a buyer in addition to the exact amount or sum stipulated for, something thrown in by way of discount (s.Sc. 1825 Jam.; Rxb., Slk. 1869 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 1125; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; Fif., Rxb. (among shepherds) 1958).Bwk. c.1750 Sc. N. & Q. (1900) IV. 5:
In the exchange of bad coin [in church collections] the loss — usually termed “rebate”, “incast”, and “discount” — was variable.Rxb. 1798 R. Douglas Agric. Rxb. 357:
It is still usual in several places to give a pound of incast, as it is here called, to every stone of wool, and a fleece to every pack sold, a sheep or lamb to every score, and an additional one to every hundred.Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond B. Bowden (1922) xii.:
Sandy on his pairt was to gi'e the Gairner a bow o' tatties by way o' incast.Rxb. 1925 Kelso Chron. (16 Jan.) 3:
On the first price there is a profit of 33⅓ per cent., and on the latter a good 75 per cent. profit. That's on beef only; the profit on sheep I let them have that as incast.

†II. v. To fill up (an excavation). See Cast, v., 15.Gsw. 1720 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1909) 93:
The expenssis payed out by them for incasting of the trenches quhich were made upon their ground the time of the late rebellion.