Etymology

caster

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Today it means: Someone or something that casts. Full definition →

English cast ← Middle English casten ← Old Norse kasta
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*kas-
  2. Proto-Germanic*kastōną
  3. Old Norsekasta
  4. Middle Englishcasten
  5. Englishcast
  6. English todaycaster

From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.