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

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Example Sentences

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leister

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

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

The leister of which Master Pearson spoke is a three-pronged fork used for spearing fish.

From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

This throwing leister was a heavy spear, or rather a heavy "graip," having five single-barbed prongs of unequal length but regularly graduated.

From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang

Nevertheless, there was in that, too, a strong element of excitement, for the weapon used, the clodding or throwing leister, required no mean skill in the using.

From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang

I there wi' Something did forgather, That pat me in an eerie swither; An' awfu' scythe, out-owre ae shouther, Clear-dangling, hang; A three-tae'd leister on the ither Lay, large an' lang.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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