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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
caster
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
caster sugar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sugar
▪ Beat the Ricotta and Mascarpone together until soft, add the caster sugar and beat until fluffy. 3.
▪ Mix together the lemon juice and freshly squeezed orange juice, then stir in the caster sugar.
▪ Add the caster sugar, if using, and sufficient water to cover, then poach until tender but not too soft.
▪ In a bowl, beat the yolks with the caster sugar and mix in a little cream.
▪ Grease four small soufflé dishes with the butter and sprinkle with caster sugar. 6.
▪ While the swiss roll is cooking, dust a large sheet of greaseproof paper with plenty of caster sugar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add the caster sugar, if using, and sufficient water to cover, then poach until tender but not too soft.
▪ Beat the Ricotta and Mascarpone together until soft, add the caster sugar and beat until fluffy. 3.
▪ Grease four small soufflé dishes with the butter and sprinkle with caster sugar. 6.
▪ In this case I begin with two on a 16, and if necessary go down to one caster on an 18.
▪ It will surround the caster and any unit they are with with a shield of intense coldness.
▪ Kenardington and Warehorne for roach and odd bream on pole and caster.
▪ While the swiss roll is cooking, dust a large sheet of greaseproof paper with plenty of caster sugar.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caster

Caster \Cast"er\, n.

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

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

  3. A stand to hold a set of cruets.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
caster

"person or thing that casts," late 14c. (also sometimes castor), agent noun from cast (v.). Meaning "pepper shaker, small perforated container" is from 1670s, on notion of "throwing."

caster

"wheel and swivel attached to furniture," 1748, agent noun from cast (v.) in the old sense of "turn." Also sometimes castor.

Wiktionary
caster

n. 1 Someone or something that casts 2 A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of 3 A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc. 4 A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.

WordNet
caster
  1. n. a worker who casts molten metal into finished products

  2. a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar [syn: castor]

  3. a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable [syn: castor]

Wikipedia
Caster

A caster is a wheeled device typically mounted to a larger object that enables relatively easy rolling movement of the object. Casters are essentially special housings that includes a wheel, facilitating the installation of wheels on objects. Casters are found virtually everywhere, from office desk chairs to shipyards, from hospital beds to automotive factories. They range in size from the very small furniture casters to massive industrial casters, and individual load capacities span 100 lbs or less to 100,000 lbs (45359 kg). Wheel materials include cast iron, plastic, rubber, polyurethane, forged steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and more.

Caster (disambiguation)

A caster is a type of wheel. Caster can also mean:

Industry:

  • Caster angle, one of the angles important to automotive suspension
  • Caster, a machine used in metal casting

Products:

  • A small condiment bottle or cruet
  • A type of sugar
  • Caster (cigarette)
  • Caster (video game)

Fishing

  • a fly pupa used as bait. The Caster is the pupae of the blue bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria) (also known as the blow-fly)

People:

  • Caster Semenya, South African runner

Fiction:

  • Caster (Fate Stay Night), an anime character
  • Spellgun, a fictional weapon
  • Spellcaster, one who casts spells
Caster (cigarette)

Caster is a brand of cigarettes from the Japan Tobacco Group.

Usage examples of "caster".

Welsh griddle cakes sprinkled with caster sugar, marinated cockles, Anglesey eggs, laver bread and Glamorgan sausages created a fragrant smell that quickly set her mouth to watering.

The fellow aimed his caster politely at Cirri, waiting one final moment for her to register some objection.

Primitive shelving put up anyhow and anywhere supported paper bags bristling with nails and rinsed-out pickle jars full of nuts and bolts and screws and washers and casters and hinges and springs.

There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there may be a caster of state.

And so strong was the field, already, that localized casters could produce no zylphable hy-perradiance within hundreds of miles of its center.

Most dementia casters in the pits were armed only to keep their creations in line.

Even the ones who knew how to fight were casters first and warriors second.

She was one of the best casters ever to take the floor, but they moved in different circles, and he had rarely interacted with her.

The chair legs had lost their casters although he doubted the casters were truly lost.

There was another college higher up on an airy summit--a bright new edifice, picturesquely and peculiarly towered and pinnacled--a sort of gigantic casters, with the cruets all complete.

The MegaMall owned the casters, and until the MegaMall decided that discretion was unnecessary, the casters would keep their hoverflies on a tight rein.

That is why magicians developed scrolls, books, and other devices, to focus that sort of magic in a way that will not harm the caster.

For Natasha of the House of Minaar was a Visage Caster, able to change her appearance to suit any need, or for that matter, any mood.

All the casters are needed for construction of our transmitter-so we can determine whether we are assembling it correctly.

And then the bureau hierarchy will continue using personalized rault casters so they'll have the advantage of zylphing whenever they need it.