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plural lasters
A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts. examples
A tool for stretching leather on a last. examples
That which lasts or endures. quotations 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.
1818, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, volume 2, page 51