castor
/ˈkæstər/
noun
- A small wheel attached to the bottom of furniture or equipment to make it easy to move.
- The hospital bed moves quietly on its rubber castors.
- She added castors to the bottom of the heavy cabinet.
- The office chair has a broken castor that won't roll smoothly.
- A container with a perforated top used for sprinkling sugar, salt, or other powdered substances.
- She filled the castor with fine salt for the dinner party.
- The castor on the table held cinnamon for the coffee.
- He passed the castor of powdered sugar for the pancakes.
- A type of oil obtained from the seeds of the castor bean plant, used in medicine and industry.
- The factory produces castor oil for cosmetics and lubricants.
- Castor oil is sometimes used as a natural laxative.
- They applied castor oil to the leather to keep it soft.