caster
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English caster From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Definitions
Someone or something that casts.
- a caster of spells
- a caster of stones
- a caster of bronze statuary
A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A…
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.
- I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.
A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
- a set of casters
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A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is…
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.
To act as a caster
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborcaster angle
- neighborcaster sugar
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for caster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA