caster
Plural: casters
Noun
- A small, swiveling wheel; one who casts.
- a worker who casts molten metal into finished products
- a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar
- a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable
- Someone or something that casts.
- 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).
- A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
- 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 turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.
Verb
- To act as a caster
Examples
- a caster of bronze statuary
- a caster of spells
- a caster of stones
- a set of casters
- Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.
- The CASTER of the dice determined his fate in the board game, but Scrabble demanded skill.
Origin / Etymology
From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Scrabble Score: 8
caster: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcaster: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
caster: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
caster: valid Words With Friends Word