caster — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Someone or something that casts.

   Examples

   a caster of spells

   a caster of stones

   More examples (2)

   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.

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).

   Synonyms

   casterwheel

   Examples

   Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.

   I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.

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

   Synonyms

   cruet

   Examples

   a set of casters

   More examples (2)

   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; […]

   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.

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

   Synonyms

   cruet

5. 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.

   Examples

   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 (wheeled assembly).

Noun

1. a worker who casts molten metal into finished products

   Broader terms

   worker

2. a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar

   Synonyms

   castor

   Broader terms

   shaker

3. a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable

   Synonyms

   castor

   Broader terms

   roller