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Caster
//ˈkæstɚ// name, noun, verb
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 Someone or something that casts.
"a caster of spells"
- 2 a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar wordnet
- 5 A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
"a set of casters"
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- 6 a worker who casts molten metal into finished products wordnet
- 7 A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
- 8 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."
Verb
- 1 To act as a caster
Etymology
Etymology 1
From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Etymology 2
From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
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