Laster vs Plaster - What's the difference?
laster | plaster |
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)
(uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
(countable, New Zealand, British) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
(uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
(countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.
(uncountable) plaster of Paris.
To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster.
To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.
As nouns the difference between laster and plaster
is that laster is while plaster is a bandage, a band-aid.laster
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Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Anagrams
* ----plaster
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(wikipedia plaster)Alternative forms
* plaister * plastre (obsolete)Noun
Derived terms
* plasterboard * gypsum plaster * plaster cast * plaster lath * plaster and lath; lath and plasterSee also
* cement board * lath * gypsum board * gyprock * sheetrock * wallboard * drywallVerb
(en verb)- Her face was plastered in mud.
- The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.