See caster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc." ], "links": [ [ "shaker", "shaker" ], [ "perforated", "perforated" ], [ "sprinkling", "sprinkling" ], [ "condiment", "condiment" ], [ "sugar", "sugar" ], [ "salt", "salt" ], [ "pepper", "pepper" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "cruet" } ] }, { "glosses": [ "A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets." ], "links": [ [ "stand", "stand" ], [ "shaker", "shaker" ], [ "cruet", "cruet" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "en:Automotive" ], "examples": [ { 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"sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "колелце́" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "輪腳" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "lúnjiǎo", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "轮脚" }, { "code": "da", "english": "office chairs", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "hjul" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "møbelhjul" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "kalustepyörä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "huonekalupyörä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "rullapyörä" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "pyörä" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "roulette" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Rollfuß" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "Castor-Rad" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Lenkrolle" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "karoúli", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "καρούλι" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "görgő" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "montaggio su ruote" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "kyasutā", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "word": "キャスター" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "koło kastora" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "rodízio" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "koljósiko", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "neuter" ], "word": "колёсико" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "rólik", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ро́лик" }, { "code": "sl", "lang": "Slovene", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "kolešček" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "rueda" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "Latin-America", "feminine" ], "word": "ruedita" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "Spain", "feminine" ], "word": "ruedecita" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "wheeled assembly", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "trissa" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "sólnica", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "со́лница" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": 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"sószóró" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "word": "sótartó" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "croiteoir" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ceanastar" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "spargisale" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "saliera" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "pepiera" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "spargipepe" }, { "alt": "やくみいれ", "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "yakumiire", "sense": "shaker with perforated top", "word": "薬味入れ" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian 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"pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "To act as a caster" ], "links": [ [ "caster", "caster" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/", "tags": [ "General-Australian", "New-Zealand", "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈkæstə(ɹ)/", "tags": [ "General-Australian", "New-Zealand", "UK" ] }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caster.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fa/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caster.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caster.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fa/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caster.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-caster.wav.ogg" }, { "ipa": "/ˈkæstɚ/", "tags": [ "Canada", "General-American" ] }, { "homophone": "castor" }, { "rhymes": "-æstə(ɹ)" }, { "rhymes": "-ɑːstə(ɹ)" } ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "UK" ], "word": "castor" } ], "word": "caster" }
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