caster en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkæstɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/ (Australia, New-Zealand, UK)
- /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/ (Australia, New-Zealand, UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English caster From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Meanings
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Someone or something that casts.
a caster of bronze statuary
She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.
2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231:a caster of spells
a caster of stones
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A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).
Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.
I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.
1980 August 30, Nancy Walker, “My Boss Comes Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 7:
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A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […]
1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:a set of casters
She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
- A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
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The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.
In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.
2008, Ronald G Haefner, The Car Care Book, →ISBN, page 238:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| casters | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| castor | UK, alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
surf-caster · surf caster · linecaster · casterless · spearcaster · baitcaster · spellcaster · figure-caster · raycaster · runecaster · beach caster
Relateds
Synonyms
cruet · casterwheel · cruet
Translations (68)
ru колёсико (wheeled assembly) · es ruedita (wheeled assembly) · it spargipepe (shaker with perforated top) · hu hajító (someone or something that casts) · pl solniczka (shaker with perforated top) · it saliera (shaker with perforated top) · fi sirotin (shaker with perforated top) · da peberbøsse (shaker with perforated top) · fi huonekalupyörä (wheeled assembly) · hu sótartó (shaker with perforated top) · bg колелце́ (wheeled assembly) · ga ceanastar (shaker with perforated top) · sl kolešček (wheeled assembly) · ru пе́речница (shaker with perforated top) · da strødåse (shaker with perforated top) · pl pieprzniczka (shaker with perforated top) · cmn 輪腳 /轮脚 (wheeled assembly) · sv trissa (wheeled assembly) · fi kalustepyörä (wheeled assembly) · es cáster ((automotive)) · hy հոլովակ (wheeled assembly) · it incantatore m incantatrice (someone or something that casts) · es salero (shaker with perforated top) · hu öntő (someone or something that casts) · el καρούλι (wheeled assembly) · es lanzamiento ((automotive)) · hu vető (someone or something that casts) · nn bøsse (shaker with perforated top) · de Rollfuß (wheeled assembly) · cmn 調味瓶 /调味瓶 (shaker with perforated top) · fr roulette (wheeled assembly) · fi rullapyörä (wheeled assembly) · es rueda (wheeled assembly) · ru ро́лик (wheeled assembly) · it lanciatore m lanciatrice (someone or something that casts) · ja キャスター (wheeled assembly) · hu görgő (wheeled assembly) · nb bøsse (shaker with perforated top) · de Castor-Rad (wheeled assembly) · bg со́лница (shaker with perforated top) · sv ströare (shaker with perforated top) · fi valaja (someone or something that casts) · fi heitin (someone or something that casts) · nn børse (shaker with perforated top) · ga croiteoir (shaker with perforated top) · da hjul (wheeled assembly) · es azucarera (shaker with perforated top) · pl koło kastora (wheeled assembly) · es rueda giratoria (wheeled assembly) · nb kaster (someone or something that casts) · da møbelhjul (wheeled assembly) · hu szóró (shaker with perforated top) · es ángulo de lanzamiento ((automotive)) · es ruedecita (wheeled assembly) · ru соло́нка (shaker with perforated top) · bg леяр (someone or something that casts) · de Lenkrolle (wheeled assembly) · fi heittäjä (someone or something that casts) · it pepiera (shaker with perforated top) · fi valuri (someone or something that casts) · it spargisale (shaker with perforated top) · it montaggio su ruote (wheeled assembly) · da saltbøsse (shaker with perforated top) · pt rodízio (wheeled assembly) · de Streuer (shaker with perforated top) · ja 薬味入れ (shaker with perforated top) · hu sószóró (shaker with perforated top) · fi pyörä (wheeled assembly)