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Meanings of castor in English

Russian
бобры
Portuguese
castor
Spanish
castores
Catalan
castors
Wikidata

Genus of mammals.

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бобры
Portuguese
castor
Spanish
castor
Catalan
castor
Wikidata

Family of solid-fuel rocket stages and boosters.

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castor
Portuguese
castor

A multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux.

castor
Catalan
rodeta

A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable.

rodeta
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Examples for "caster"
Examples for "caster"
1
Dissolve the dried yeast in the water and add the caster sugar.
The Irish Times
2
Allow them to cool slightly, then dredge with icing or caster sugar.
Independent.ie
3
No, the man had not brought the missing caster for the bedstead.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
4
For the dressing, whisk together the lime, fish sauce and caster sugar.
The Irish Times
5
Palm sugar is stickier than caster sugar and has a caramel-like flavour.
The Guardian
Usage of castor in English
1
Close to a million tons of castor beans are processed every year.
Flash and Bones
2
The castor oil seed resembles in chemical composition the other oily seeds.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
3
Should the bowels become constipated, repeat the castor oil without the opium.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
4
And he smiled as he shook the small sand-castor over the paper.
In Kedar's Tents
5
For several days the huge store bottle of castor oil was lost.
A Surgeon in Belgium
6
A good dose of castor oil should be given after the spasm.
The Mother and Her Child
7
Give castor oil to clean out all undigested food from the bowels.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
8
The pellet contained ricin, the poisonous extract of the castor bean plant.
Wicked plants
9
White of egg and milk, and then sweet oil or castor oil.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
10
You can help the Fatherland if you plant poppies, castor plant, sunflowers.
The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War
11
Instead of an alcoholic solution of castor oil, vaseline can be employed.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
12
When they cried, I gave them peppermint or castor oil quite coolly.
Anne's House of Dreams
13
Bay rum two pints, alcohol one pint, castor oil one ounce, carb.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
14
Cut into wedges, sprinkle with castor sugar, and pile on a plate.
The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed.
15
They gently rubbed warmed castor oil into the crust around the eyes.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
16
Will your castor oil, an' your calomel, an' your croton, do that?
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
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Translations for castor
Portuguese
castorrodízio
Castor through the time
Castor across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
Common