plural lasters
: someone or something that lasts for a notably long time
Climbing the bank, Payson studied the storm enveloping the western sky. It looked like a laster …—
Maurice Kildare
Maurice KildareThe marriage has been a long laster by Hollywood standards.—David Collins
David Collins
plural lasters
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: a worker who stretches shoe uppers around lasts : an operator of a lasting machine
Marciano used to run lunch down to his father, Pierino, a laster at a nearby shoe factory …—William Nack
William Nack2
: a machine used for attaching shoe uppers to soles
Between 1883 when the original shoe laster was patented and 1891, [Jan Ernst] Matzeliger would receive a total of five patents on his inventions. The laster was refined over the years to a point where it could adjust a shoe, arrange the leather over the sole, drive in the nails and deliver the finished product—all in one minute's time.—Michigan Chronicle
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“Laster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laster. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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