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▪ I. ˈCastor3
In Greek mythology, name of one of the twin sons (Castor and Pollux) of Tyndarus and Leda, brothers of Helena; represented in the constellation Gemini or the Twins, of which Castor is the first, and Pollux the second star.
1526Tindale Acts xxviii. 11 A ship of Alexandry, which had wyntred in the Yle, whose badge was Castor and Pollux. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 38 Truth and Peace are the Castor and Pollux of the Gospell. 1868Lockyer Heavens (ed. 3) 350 note, Castor is a binary system to which..doubtless belongs a third star, which participates in the proper movement of the two others.
2. A name given to the phenomenon called also corposant or St. Elmo's Fire. On the appearance of two at once they were called Castor and Pollux, and were thought to portend the cessation of a storm.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. xviii. (1737) 77 He had seen Castor at the Main-yard-arm. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Feu Saint-Elme, a corposant, sometimes called Castor and Pollux.
▪ II. Castor6|ˈkɑːstɔː(r), -æ-|
Applied to ancient Romano-British pottery made in the neighbourhood of Castor in Northamptonshire.
[1828E. T. Artis Durobrivae of Antoninus Pl. 48 Fine red Ware in relief, collected in excavating the remains of a Roman Pottery in the parish of Castor.] 1857C. R. Smith Coll. Antiqua IV. 81 Ancient pottery discovered in this country..a particular kind..belongs to a class..termed Castor or Northamptonshire ware, on account of its having occurred frequently in immediate connection with potters' kilns discovered near Castor, by the late Mr. E. T. Artis. 1923Collingwood Roman Britain 73 The imported Samian ware..provoked the British manufacturer to..put on the market a style of pottery which resembled it in having ornament in relief and a highly glazed surface. Thus was produced what is known as Castor ware. 1945S. E. Winbolt Britain under Romans ix. 123 Somewhat more fragile, but more interesting in their designs, were the slate-coloured vessels of ‘Castor’ ware, decorated in raised creamy slip with hunting-scenes. 1963Times 12 Mar. 5/2 A Roman beaker of about a.d. 200 decorated with a hound chasing a hare, possibly Castor ware. |