caster
verbEtymology From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
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To act as a caster
caster
nounAU, NZ, UK /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/ · CA, US /ˈkæstɚ/
Etymology From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
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Someone or something that casts.
- a caster of spells
- a caster of stones
2 more examples
- 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:
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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.
- a set of casters
- 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:
1 more example
- 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:
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A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
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Automotive, Transport, Vehicles 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:
- Derived terms
- baitcaster, casterless, figure-caster, linecaster, raycaster, runecaster, spearcaster, spellcaster, surf-caster, surf caster
- Related terms
- caster angle, caster sugar