different between laster vs baster

English

Etymology

last +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??st?(r)

Noun

laster (plural lasters)

1. A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
2. A tool for stretching leather on a last.
3. That which lasts or endures.
   • 1818, Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London (volume 2, page 51)

     […] 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, strale, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

Basque

Alternative forms

• laister

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /las?.ter/

Adjective

laster

1. fast

Adverb

laster (comparative lasterrago, superlative lasterren, excessive lasterregi)

1. soon

Danish

Noun

laster c

1. indefinite plural of last

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

laster m (uncountable)

1. slander

Verb

laster

1. first-person singular present indicative of lasteren
2. imperative of lasteren

Anagrams

• strale

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

laster m or f

1. indefinite plural of last

Verb

laster

1. present of laste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lastar

Noun

laster f or m

1. indefinite feminine plural of last

Swedish

Noun

laster

1. indefinite plural of last

Anagrams

• alster, arslet, laters, salter

English

Etymology

baste +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?be?st?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?be?st?/
• Rhymes: -e?st?(?)

Noun

baster (plural basters)

1. One who bastes.
2. A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.
   • 2009, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots

     Hmm, yeah, but we didn’t have a turkey baster.

Translations

Anagrams

• Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, abrest, barest, bestar, breast, rebats, tabers

Middle French

Verb

baster

1. to put a packsaddle on

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: bâter

References

• “bâter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).