leister

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

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

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Origin

  • From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lester, *lister, from Old Norse ljóstr, from ljósta, from Proto-Germanic *leustaną, from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s-; the word is cognate with Danish lyster, Icelandic ljósta, Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster.

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