Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun in shoemaking:
  • noun One who fits the parts of shoes to lasts preparatory to the subsequent operations, especially in a shoe-factory.
  • noun A tool like a pair of pincers used in stretching the upper-leather of a boot or shoe on the last.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts
  • noun A tool for stretching leather on a last.

Etymologies

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last +‎ -er

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