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See also: Laster and läster

English

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Etymology

From last +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /las̺ter/ [las̺.t̪er]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -as̺ter, -er
  • Hyphenation: las‧ter

Adjective

laster

  1. fast

Adverb

laster (comparative lasterrago, superlative lasterren, excessive lasterregi)

  1. soon

Danish

Noun

laster c

  1. indefinite plural of last

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

laster m (uncountable, no diminutive)

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

Descendants

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

Verb

laster

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

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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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