Definition of "leaf cast" []

• A disease of conifers causing the needles to fall (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The stones heaped by passers-by at the base of some great tree or rock, the leaf cast from a passing canoe towards a point of land on the river bank, are silent acknowledgements of the presence of the ombwiris (i.e. spirits of the place)."