# caster
## English
### Alternative forms

* castor (UK)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈkæstɚ/
* Homophone: castor
* Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)

### Noun

caster (plural casters)
* Someone or something that casts.
    a caster of spells
    a caster of stones
    a caster of bronze statuary
** 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231:She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.
* 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.
** 1980 August 30, Nancy Walker, “My Boss Comes Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 7:I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.
* A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
    Synonym: cruet
    a set of casters
** 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […]
** 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business‎:She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.
* A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
* (automotive) 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.
** 2008, Ronald G Haefner, The Car Care Book‎, →ISBN, page 238:In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.

#### Derived terms

* baitcaster
* casterless
* countercaster
* figure-caster
* linecaster
* raycaster
* runecaster
* spearcaster
* spellcaster
* surf caster
* surf-caster

#### See also

* caster angle
* caster sugar

### Verb

caster (third-person singular simple present casters, present participle castering, simple past and past participle castered)
* To act as a caster

### Anagrams

* racest, Cestar, Caters, recast, creats, carest, crates, Cartes, acters, carets, cartes, reäcts, caters, reacts, traces, Tresca

## French
### Etymology

From English cast.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kas.te/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

caster
* (transitive) to cast (a spell)
* (transitive, film) to cast (into a role)

#### Derived terms

* précaster
* recaster