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Laster

name, noun

Definitions

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

    "[…] 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From last + -er.

Etymology 2

* As an English surname, variant of Lester. * Also as an English occupational surname, from the noun laster.

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