The final part of something, especially a period of time, an event, or a series of events. The last of the guests left the party at midnight.
A person or thing that is the most recent or final one in a sequence. He was the last to arrive at the meeting.
A shoemaker's model of the foot, used in making or repairing shoes. The cobbler used a wooden last to shape the new pair of shoes.
An old English unit of weight or volume whose value varied locally, often about eighty bushels of grain or two thousand pounds of fish or hides. In medieval records, a last of herring could supply an entire village through the winter.