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Caster

noun

A worker who casts molten metal into finished products.

A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar. Synonym: castor.

A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable. Synonym: castor.

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"Caster" Quotes from Famous Books

... trick stove specially popular in Belgium. It has a little door at the top and another little door at the bottom, and looks like a pepper-caster. Whether it is happy or not depends upon those two little doors. There are times when it feels it wants the bottom door shut and the top door open, or vice versa, or both open at the same time, or both shut—it is a fussy ...

— The Angel and the Author - and Others • Jerome K. Jerome

... The caster-up of sums cast a look at the delinquent, the tottle of the whole of which was, "you sha'n't be long on the debit side of ...

— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

... matter of fact, John was a good caster for one of his age, and he had laid out thirty or forty feet of line when there came a silvery flash from below, followed by a second one, as two fine trout fastened ...

— The Young Alaskans in the Rockies • Emerson Hough

... subscribed liberally to. She turns every table in her house. She won't leave even one alone. Her early breakfasts for star-gazers are famous, and it's impossible to dine with her without sitting next to a horoscope-caster, or being taken in—to dinner, of course—by a crystal diviner or ...

— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens

Words linked to "Caster" : worker, cast, caster sugar, roller, shaker, castor