laster

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noun (1)

last·er ˈla-stər

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

The marriage has been a long laster by Hollywood standards.—

David Collins

laster

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noun (2)

plural lasters

: 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

: 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