leister

American  

[lee-ster] / ˈli stər /

noun

1. a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.

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verb (used with object)

1. to spear (fish) with a leister.

leister British  

/ ˈliːstə /

noun

1. a spear with three or more prongs for spearing fish, esp salmon

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verb

1. (tr) to spear (a fish) with a leister

Etymology

Origin of leister

1525–35; < Old Norse ljōstr salmon-spear, akin to ljōsta to strike

Example Sentences

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leister

Fifteenth.—I think your leister requires a more rigorous definition.

From Essays in Natural History and Agriculture by Thomas Garnett

Vb. leister in Sco., to strike fish with a spear or leister.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

With this little leister the men cast up fish on the ice with incredible dexterity.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

Yet when anon he came to cast this leister at the muckle kipper, "the 14 lb. waster stottit off his back as if he had been a bag o' wool."

From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang

It does not fall to the lot of all men to handle with equal dexterity the brush, the pen, and the rod—to say nothing of the rifle—still less of the leister, under cloud of night.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various