(Homonym: caster).
1. A pivoting wheel attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable; SYN. castor.
2. A person or thing that casts.

(Homonym: castor)
1. A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver. Type genus of the Castoridae: beavers; Also called: genus Castor.
2. A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats. Substance derived from beaver and used in perfumery; hat, especially of beaver fur.

A muzzle-loading cannon with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range; SYN. howitzer, trench mortar.
Method of projecting a bomb via a high trajectory at a target up to 6–7 km/3–4 mi away. A mortar bomb is stabilized in flight by means of tail fins. The high trajectory results in a high angle of attack and makes mortars more suitable than artillery for use in built-up areas or mountains; mortars are not as accurate, however. Artillery also differs in firing a projectile through a rifled barrel, thus creating greater muzzle velocity.
Mortars began to be developed when the trench lines came into use in World War I, so that missiles could be pitched into the enemy trenches. The German minenwerfer was an early and complex design, but the archetypal early mortar was the British Stokes design 1915. This was a simple tube with a fixed firing pin at the bottom end, into which a bomb carrying a blank shotgun cartridge and some smokeless powder was dropped. The cartridge hit the pin, ignited the powder, and blew the bomb from the barrel. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. picher, Old Fren. pichier, Old High Germ. pehhar, pehhâri; prob. of the same origin as Eng. beaker. Related to Beaker.
1. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring; SYN. ewer.
2. The quantity contained in a pitcher; SYN. pitcherful.

Perverter; distorter, twister; loom for warping wool