LASTER

Etymology

Noun

laster (plural lasters)

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.

That which lasts or endures.

Anagrams

• Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

Source: Wiktionary


Last"er, n.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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