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noun

Caster n.

One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc.; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.

A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.

A stand to hold a set of cruets.

A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.

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Etymology of 'Caster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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

... the world, governed a nunnery which she built; or, according to others, found built by her brother Wulfere, in a moist fenny place, on the confines of the counties of Huntingdon and Northampton, then called Dormundcaster, afterwards, from her, Kyneburgecaster, now Caster. The author of her life in Capgrave says, that she lived here a mirror of all sanctity, and that no words can express the bowels of charity with which she cherished the souls which served God under her care; and how watchful she was over their comportment, and how zealous ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

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