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Caster   /kˈæstər/   Listen
Caster

noun
1.
A worker who casts molten metal into finished products.
2.
A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar.  Synonym: castor.
3.
A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable.  Synonym: castor.



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"Caster" Quotes from Famous Books



... go to the Chamber of Deputies again the day after to-morrow, being so immersed in public matters (and public men) that I can think of nothing else at present. Happily my bust is out of hand, and the caster (not B. this time) is hard at ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... eight in number, and cut flat at their large end, are shook together in a wooden dish, tossed into the air and caught again. The lines traced on such claws as happen to alight on the platter in an erect position, indicate what number of counters the caster is to receive ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 • John Franklin
... I ever tell you, my dears, the way That the birds of Cisseter—"Cisseter!" eh? Well "Ciren-cester"—one OUGHT to say, From "Castra," or "Caster," As your Latin master Will further explain to you some day; Though even the wisest err, And Shakespeare writes "Ci-cester," While every visitor Who doesn't say "Cissiter" Is in ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... venture to interrupt, 'is only the shadow of the first. Fuku-no-Kami is the Shadow-caster, and Bimbogami the Shadow; and I have observed, in wandering about this world, that wherever the one goeth, eternally followeth after him ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... stayed aloft ten minutes and hoped that by that time she would have passed on to some other topic. I did not waste my time, however; I looked everywhere for the "Children's Book of a Million Reasons," until I remembered it was under the dining-room table taking the place of a missing caster. ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley


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