caster

plural casters · alternative UK castor

1. Someone or something that casts.

   a caster of spells

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   a caster of stones

   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

2. 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.

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   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

   Synonyms: casterwheel

3. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.

   a set of casters

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: cruet

4. A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.

   Synonyms: cruet

5. automotiveThe 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

present singular third person casters · participle present castering · participle past castered · past castered · alternative UK castor

1. To act as a caster (wheeled assembly).

plural Casters

1. A surname.