[f. the sb.]
1. intr. To fall or pour in a cascade.
1702. S. P[arker], trans. Tully’s De Finibus, 70. Wines … Caskading from a mighty Goblet.
1732–48. De Foe, &c., Tour Gt. Brit. II. 218 (D.). In the middle of a large octagon piece of water stands an obelisk of near seventy feet, for a Jet-d’-Eau to cascade from the top of it.
1791. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 100. The waves cascade through this gap.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. II. xxvi. 34. A much more copious stream of melted matter, had cascaded down the same height and overflowed the plain below.
1880. Miss Bird, Japan, I. 123. A vigorous mountain torrent cascading its way between rocky walls.
b. transf. (Cf. CASCADE sb. 2 c.)
1861. Thackeray, Philip, xix. 258. Who wore a large high black-satin stock cascading over a figured silk waist-coat.
c. vulgar. To vomit. ? Obs.
[1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl., III. 4 Oct. iii. She cascaded in his urn.]
1805. Naval Chron., XV. 35. I had cascaded two or three times.
1847–78. Halliwell, Cascade, to vomit. Var. dial. [Webster says: colloq. or vulgar in Amer.]
2. trans. To pour, like a cascade. nonce-use.
1796[?]. Coleridge, Lett. to Estlin (1884), 21. The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on my poems, the Critical has cascaded it.
Hence Cascading vbl. sb.
1791. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 100. The cascading of the water through the gully before mentioned.
