2. Verb. (third-person singular of last) ¹
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Definition of Lasts
1. last [v] - See also: last
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lasts
Literary usage of Lasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"THE modern fashion of boots and shoes necessitates the making of lasts, as the
form upon which the boot or shoe is modelled, and its shape given it. ..."
2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"AMERICA : 1868. Political excitement. Nothing lasts long. ... Nothing in this
country, as I before said, lasts ' long; and I think it likely that the public ..."
3. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"... fortieth degree of Latitude, (as is more fully to he seen by the Figurative
Map,) in a small Yacht of about eight lasts, named the O,'n,xt (Restless. ..."
4. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by Jan van Riebeeck (1898)
"The Amersfoort only had six instead of eight lasts for the Cape. Everything has
been left in charge of the assistant Gysbert van Campen. ..."
5. Phi Delta Kappan by Phi Delta Kappa (1912)
"Copies may be purchased at 35 cents each while a limited supply lasts. Entered as
second class matter at the post office at Fulton, Missouri, under the Act ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"On the western coast it lasts from June to September, while on the east coast it
occurs from October to December—in each case the rain being borne on to the ..."
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