name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone or something that casts.

   "a caster of spells"

2. 2
   a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable wordnet
3. 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. 4
   a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar wordnet
5. 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. 6
   a worker who casts molten metal into finished products wordnet
7. 7
   A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
8. 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. 1
   To act as a caster

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

bottlecanteencastorcruetflaskjar

Example

More examples

"She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

figure-castersurf castersurf-castercaster anglecaster sugar

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.