laster

See also: Laster and läster

English

Etymology

last +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(r)

Noun

laster (plural lasters)

1. A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
2. A tool for stretching leather on a last.
3. That which lasts or endures.
   • 1818, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London (volume 2, page 51)

     […] the Ambret; which Pear, though it neither grows to be so large in substance or size, as large Les Chasseries, yet bears more in number, comes sooner into bearing, tastes better in the mouth, and is commonly a long laster.

Translations

workman

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tool

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Anagrams

• Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

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Basque

Alternative forms

• laister

Adjective

laster

1. fast

Adverb

laster

1. soon

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Danish

Noun

laster c

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of last

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

laster m (uncountable)

1. slander

Verb

laster

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of lasteren
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of lasteren

Anagrams

• strale

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

laster m or f

1. indefinite plural of last

Verb

laster

1. (deprecated template usage) present of laste

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lastar

Noun

laster f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of last

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Swedish

Noun

laster

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of last

Anagrams

• alster, arslet, laters, salter