English
linecaster
From line + caster.
Proto-Germanic *līną ‘flax’
Proto-Germanic *līnǭ ‘line’
Proto-West Germanic *līnā ‘line’
Old English līne ‘line’
Middle English line ‘rope’
English line
Proto-Germanic *kas- ‘to throw’
Proto-Germanic *kastōną ‘to throw’
Old Norse kasta ‘to cast, to throw’
Middle English casten ‘cast’
English cast ‘to turn’
English caster
Today it means
noun A typesetting machine that casts entire lines of type in metal slugs.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / linecaster