German

Noun

Laster n ‎(genitive Lasters, plural Laster)

1. vice (bad habit)

Declension

Derived terms

• lasterhaft
• lästern

Etymology 2

Laster

lasten ‎(“to load”) +‎ -er

Noun

Laster m ‎(genitive Lasters, plural Laster)

1. truck, lorry (motor vehicle for transporting goods)

Declension

Synonyms

• LKW
• Lastwagen
• Lastkraftwagen

Related terms

• Last f ‎(“load”)

References

• Friedrich Kluge (1975), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 21st impression, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 425.

English

Noun

laster ‎(plural lasters)

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

     […] 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• alerts, alters, artels, estral, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, talers

Basque

Adjective

laster

1. fast

Adverb

laster

1. soon

Alternative forms

• laister

Danish

Noun

laster c

1. plural indefinite of last

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

laster m ‎(uncountable)

1. slander

Verb

laster

1. first-person singular present indicative of lasteren
2. imperative of lasteren

Anagrams

• strale

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

laster m, f

1. indefinite plural of last

Verb

laster

1. present tense of laste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lastar

Noun

laster f, m

1. indefinite feminine plural of last

Swedish

Noun

laster

1. indefinite plural of last