caster

See also: Caster

English

Casters on a chair (def. 2)

Alternative forms

• castor

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(r)
• Homophone: castor

Noun

caster (plural casters)

1. Someone or something that casts

   a caster of spells; a caster of stones; a caster of bronze statuary

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).

   Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.

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

   a set of casters

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

Derived terms

• spearcaster

Translations

someone or something that casts

• Bulgarian: леяр (bg) m (lejar)
• Finnish: heittäjä (fi); heitin; valaja (fi), valuri
• Italian: lanciatore m lanciatrice f; (who spells) incantatore m incantatrice f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (thrower) kaster (no) m

wheeled assembly

• Armenian: հոլովակ (hy) (holovak)
• Bulgarian: колелце́ n (kolelcé)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輪腳／轮脚 (zh), 轮脚 (zh) (lúnjiǎo)

• Danish: hjul (da) n (office chairs)
• Finnish: kalustepyörä, huonekalupyörä, rullapyörä, pyörä (fi)
• French: roulette (fr) f
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• German: Rollfuß m, Castor-Rad n, Lenkrolle f
• Italian: montaggio su ruote m
• Japanese: キャスター (kyasutā)
• Polish: koło kastora n
• Portuguese: rodízio (pt) m
• Russian: колёсико (ru) n (koljósiko), ро́лик (ru) m (rólik)
• Slovene: kolešček m

shaker with perforated top

• Bulgarian: со́лница (bg) f (sólnica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調味瓶／调味瓶 (zh), 调味瓶 (zh) (tiáowèi píng)

• Danish: strødåse c, saltbøsse (da) c (salt shaker), peberbøsse (da) c (pepper shaker)
• Finnish: sirotin
• German: Streuer m
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• Irish: croiteoir m, ceanastar m
• Italian: spargisale (it) m, saliera (it) f, pepiera f, spargipepe m
• Japanese: 薬味入れ (やくみいれ, yakumiire)
• Polish: pieprzniczka (pl) f (pepper shaker), solniczka (pl) f (salt shaker)
• Russian: пе́речница (ru) f (pérečnica) (pepper shaker), соло́нка (ru) f (solónka) (salt shaker)
• Swedish: ströare

See also

• caster angle
• caster sugar

Anagrams

• Cartes, acters, carest, carets, cartes, caters, crates, creats, racest, reacts, recast, rescat, reäcts, traces