Meaning of Caster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that casts.
2. A surname.
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).
4. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
5. A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
6. 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.

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Examples

“a caster of spells”

“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.”

“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.”

“a set of casters”

“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.”

“In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.”

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