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Castor   /kˈæstər/   Listen
Castor

noun
1.
A multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux.  Synonym: Alpha Geminorum.
2.
A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar.  Synonym: caster.
3.
A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable.  Synonym: caster.
4.
A hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material).  Synonym: beaver.
5.
Type genus of the Castoridae: beavers.  Synonym: genus Castor.



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"Castor" Quotes from Famous Books



... "You are the Castor and Pollux of purity? Do you remember the night of last Shrove Tuesday and the girl you carried off to Fat Margot's and held ...
— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... pear, the American aloe, the castor-oil plant and the fig-tree, grow wild along the coast; while a little farther upwards, on the slopes and plateaus, the arbutus, cistus, oleander, myrtle and various kinds of heaths, form a dense coppice, called in the island ...
— Itinerary through Corsica - by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads • Charles Bertram Black

... deities, pouring libations on the sacred fire, performing those sacrifices and rites that go by the name of Ishti-homa, picking up the grains of Nivara-paddy, eating fruit and roots, and using oil that is pressed out from Inguda and castor-seeds are their duties. Having gone through the practices of Yoga and become crowned with (ascetic) success and freed from lust and wrath, they should seat themselves in the attitude called Virasana. Indeed, they should reside in those places which ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... about the use of castor bean pomace for strawberries. He uses it mixed with wood ashes. It is capital on poor land. He likes unleached ashes in both strawberry and orchard culture. He pays six cents per bushel for them. The castor bean pomace is good for anything in the poor soils of Southern Illinois. ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

... are stored under guard in the Church of St. Castor, and can be in the hands of the soldiers within a few minutes after a signal is rung by the St. ...
— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr


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