Leister

Quick meaning: Leister is a noun meaning (fishing) A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon.

Meaning

(fishing) A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To catch or spear (fish) with a leister.

Example Sentences

The shaft parts taper slightly upwards, have rounded outer surfaces and flat or slightly concave inner surfaces which are adapted to the shape of the leister pole.

Rob Runchy, as a forlorn hope, once threw his clodding leister at a drowning man floating down the Yarrow in a high flood, and hauled him out with the lyams unharmed.

Old Sandy fished down the river, but he could kill no more salmon that night, […] He missed one; wounded another on the tail; and struck a third on the rigback, where no leister can pierce a fish, till he made him spring above water.

Although leisters and harpoons cannot be called the most important implement in the fishing economy of the North American Indians, they are probably of more value as evidence of culture-historical movements than most of the other fishing artifacts, and for two reasons.

Word Forms

• leisters
• leistering
• leistered

Synonyms for leister

Depending on context, synonyms include waster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lister, spear, fishspear, eelspear, spearfisher, lance.

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