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Definition of Laster
1. n. 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.
Definition of Laster
1. Noun. A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts ¹
2. Noun. A tool for stretching leather on a last. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laster
1. one that lasts [n -S] - See also: lasts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laster
Literary usage of Laster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: Comprising Annals by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1868)
"The system of working is by gangs or teams, consisting of laster, second laster,
heeler, trimmer', burnisher and finisher. The bottom sewing is all done by ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"The Superintendent's society friend Mrs. laster sure was queening the shop, right
in the middle of the mix-up, and just shimmering all over with gorgeous ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"The Superintendent's society friend Mrs. laster sure was queening the shop, ...
If Mrs. laster had the colossal nerve to wear her jewels—the real ones—it ..."
4. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"Thomas Hood, Pilot for the Streights. William Anthonie, Master of the barke Clifford.
laster William Withrington. ivid Collins.} {Tristram Gennings. laster ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"The jury were Instructed that if laster in good faith pointed out to Chason the
boundaries of the land which he thought had been bargained to him by ..."
6. Neue Abhandlungen über Den Menschlichen Verstand by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1873)
"Dem gewöhnlichen Wortsinne nach unterscheiden sich die Tugenden oder laster von
den Pflichten und den Sünden nur wie die Gewohnheiten sich von den ..."
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