laster

From last + -er.

• Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)

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.

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

• laister

• IPA^(key): /las̺ter/ [las̺.t̪er]

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• Rhymes: -as̺ter, -er
• Hyphenation: las‧ter

laster

1. fast

laster (comparative lasterrago, superlative lasterren, excessive lasterregi)

1. soon

laster c

1. indefinite plural of last

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laster m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. slander, libel (untrue, injurious statement, either written or said)

• Negerhollands: laster
• → Papiamentu: laster (dated)

laster

1. inflection of lasteren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• strale

laster m or f

1. indefinite plural of last

laster

1. present of laste

• lastar

laster f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of last

laster

1. indefinite plural of last

• alster, arslet, laters, salter