Laster vs Vaster - What's the difference?
laster | vaster |
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)
(vast)
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
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(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
* William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
(poetic) A vast space.
* 1608': they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a '''vast , and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i
As a noun laster
is a workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.As an adjective vaster is
comparative of vast.laster
English
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
* ----vaster
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----vast
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The Sahara desert is vast .
- There is a vast difference between them.
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- the empty, vast , and wandering air