LEISTER

leister

(noun) a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Leister (plural Leisters)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Leister is the 10800th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2952 individuals. Leister is most common among White (95.6%) individuals.

Anagrams

• reliest, retiles, sterile, treiles

Etymology

Noun

leister (plural leisters)

(fishing) A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon. [from 16th c.]

Synonym: waster (Scotland, obsolete)

Hypernyms

• gig

Verb

leister (third-person singular simple present leisters, present participle leistering, simple past and past participle leistered)

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

Anagrams

• reliest, retiles, sterile, treiles

Source: Wiktionary


Leis"ter, Lis"ter, n.

Definition: A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish. [Scotland]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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