Laster

Definitions

1. A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
2. A surname originating as an occupation.
3. A tool for stretching leather on a last.
4. That which lasts or endures.

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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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