Waster vs Laster - What's the difference?
waster | laster |
Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
(dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
(obsolete, chiefly, fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
*, II.3.6:
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 nouns the difference between waster and laster
is that waster is someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly or waster can be (obsolete|chiefly|fencing) a kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil while laster is .waster
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) wastere, wastour, partly from .Noun
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* time-wasterEtymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.
Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----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 .