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Lasher vs Laster - What's the difference?

lasher | laster |

As nouns the difference between lasher and laster

is that lasher is one who whips or lashes while laster is a workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.

lasher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who whips or lashes.
  • A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
  • (UK) A weir in a river.
    • (Charles Kingsley)
    (Halliwell)

    Synonyms

    * (rope for binding) lashing

    laster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 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 .

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