Loster vs Laster - What's the difference?
loster | laster |
(nonstandard) (lost)
* {{quote-book
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, last=Bellow
, first=Saul
, authorlink=Saul Bellow
, year=1975
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, publisher=Viking
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* {{quote-magazine
, year=2006
, month=April
, magazine=American Motorcyclist
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, page=41
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* {{quote-book
, title=Signspotting III: Lost and Loster in Translation
, last=Lansky
, first=Doug
, year=2009
, publisher=Penguin
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, page=title
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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)
As an adjective loster
is (nonstandard) (lost).As a noun laster is
.loster
English
Adjective
- Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster ; being very late for an appointment, it might be best to walk slower, as one of my beloved Russian writers advised.
- You can get loster , faster!
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 .