laster
See also: Laster and läster
English
Etymology
last + -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːstə(r)
Noun
laster (plural lasters)
- A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
- A tool for stretching leather on a last.
- 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.
- 1818, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London (volume 2, page 51)
Translations
workman
tool
Anagrams
- Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse
Basque
Alternative forms
- laister
Adjective
laster
- fast
Adverb
laster
- soon
Danish
Noun
laster c
- plural indefinite of last
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
laster m (uncountable)
- slander
Verb
laster
- first-person singular present indicative of lasteren
- imperative of lasteren
Anagrams
- strale
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
laster m or f
- indefinite plural of last
Verb
laster
- present of laste
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- lastar
Noun
laster f or m
- indefinite feminine plural of last
Swedish
Noun
laster
- indefinite plural of last