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▪ I. leister|ˈliːstə(r)|
Also 6 leyster, 6, 9 lister, 7–8 leester, 9 liester.
[a. ON. lióstr (Norw. dial. lioster, Sw. ljuster, Da. lyster), f. liósta str. vb., to strike.]
A pronged spear for striking and taking fish, chiefly salmon.
1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 7 No..person..shal..take..in..any..crele, raw web, lister, fier, or any other engine..the yonge frie..of any kinde of salmon. 1551Turner Herbal i. F vj, Their leysters or sammon speres. 1638N. Riding Rec. IV. 101 A yeoman presented for that he did kill..with a certain engine called a leister much salmon. 1785Burns Death Dr. Hornbook vi, A three-taed leister. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xi, [He] came running up the stairs with a salmon lister in one hand. 1843W. Scrope Salmon Fish. Tweed xi. 239 The men..wielding their long leisters. 1895Chamb. Jrnl. XII. 753/2 Celebrated..as a poacher and as a great hand at the leister in autumn.
b. Comb., as leister grain; leister-shaped adj.
1634Acts Durham High Comm. Crt. (Surtees) 102 Did see Mr. Haslehead take upp the leester graines and throw them awaie. 1863Atkinson Stanton Grange (1864) 23 Rather leister-shaped in construction, with five barbed prongs.
▪ II. ˈleister, v.
[f. leister n.]
trans. To spear with a leister.
1834Hogg Dom. Mann. Scott (1882) 11 He [Scott] and Skene of Rubislaw, and I were out one night about mid⁓night, leistering kippers in Tweed. 1861J. Brown Horæ Subs. II. 243 The poaching weaver who had the night before leistered a prime kipper. 1881Blackw. Mag. Apr. 530 They burned the water and leistered the salmon.
Hence ˈleistering vbl. n. Also ˈleisterer.
1843W. Scrope Salmon Fish. Tweed xi. 237 The side on which the leisterers strike the fish. 1867Times 30 Dec. 9/6 Conviction of Salmon Leisterers. Ibid., The process of salmon leistering by night with the aid of torch and spear. |