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Definition of Caster
1. Noun. A worker who casts molten metal into finished products.
2. Noun. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar.
3. Noun. A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable.
Definition of Caster
1. n. One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
Definition of Caster
1. Noun. Someone or something that casts ¹
2. Noun. A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of ¹
3. Noun. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caster
1. a small, swiveling wheel [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caster
Literary usage of Caster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"Sty- pax of Cyprus, brass-caster, 85. ALCAMENES of Athens, scholar of Phidias,
... brass-caster, 97—104 (he worked for the undertakings of Conon and for ..."
2. The New-York Legal Observer by Samuel Owen (1844)
"The Plate caster is that which has been longest in use, and this has the wheel in
... To use this caster, the socket must first be let into the leg of the ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The following claim was substituted for all previous claims: "In a caster, the
floor-wheels, EE, and an anti-friction wheel, F, in the relative position ..."
4. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Parish Register Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"BY M. caster, PH.D. (Read at Meeting of March i^th, 1899. ... How should I not cry ?
And how should I not lament * v. M. caster, Li ..."
5. Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises: with by Edmond Hoyle (1847)
"5 6 5 to 4 for the caster. 5 7 3 to 2 for the caster. 5 8 5 to 4 for the caster.
5 9 equal betting. 5 10 4 to 3 agst the caster. 6 4 5 to 3 agst the caster. ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1891)
"THE BRONZE-caster. A STUDY FROM LIFE. THERE is only one place in all England ...
And, as I think, to succeed in being a good caster of bronze is something ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If tbo caster neither nicks nor throws out, the number thrown is his ... If the
caster thrown 7 or 11 he wins ; if he throws aces, crabs, or 12 he loses. ..."
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