Leister

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  • noun. A three-pronged spear used in fishing.
  • transitive verb. To spear (a fish) with a leister.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A barbed spear having three or more prongs, for striking and taking fish; a salmon-spear. Also called waster.
  • To strike or take with a leister.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon)
    • Word Usage
    "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.""
    Equivalent
    lister  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fishgig  fizgig  gig  lance  spear  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dniester  Easter  easter  feaster  teaster  
    verb-form
    leistered  leistering  leisters  
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