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.

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Basque

Alternative forms

  • laister

Adjective

laster

  1. fast

Adverb

laster

  1. soon

Danish

Noun

laster c

  1. plural indefinite of last

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

laster m (uncountable)

  1. slander

Verb

laster

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lasteren
  2. imperative of lasteren

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

laster m or f

  1. indefinite plural of last

Verb

laster

  1. present of laste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

laster f or m

  1. indefinite feminine plural of last

Swedish

Noun

laster

  1. indefinite plural of last
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