英语释义
1. someone or something that lasts for a notably long time
Climbing the bank, Payson studied the storm enveloping the western sky. It looked like a laster …
— Maurice Kildare The marriage has been a long laster by Hollywood standards.
— David Collins
2. a worker who stretches shoe uppers around lasts an operator of a lasting machine
Marciano used to run lunch down to his father, Pierino, a laster at a nearby shoe factory …
— William Nack
3. a machine used for attaching shoe uppers to soles
Between 1883 when the original shoe laster was patented and 1891, [Jan Ernst] Matzeliger would receive a total of five patents on his inventions. The laster was refined over the years to a point where it could adjust a shoe, arrange the leather over the sole, drive in the nails and deliver the finished product—all in one minute's time.
— Michigan Chronicle