Leister

It does not fall to the lot of all men to handle with equal dexterity the brush, the pen, and the rod -- to say nothing of the rifle -- still less of the leister, under cloud of night. ❋ Various (N/A)

It, too, had five single-barbed prongs, but these were all of equal length, and the wooden handle of this implement was straight, and very much longer than that of the throwing leister; sixteen feet was no unusual length for the handle of the former weapon. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

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." ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Bait fishing for salmon, and the darker, though torch-illumined, mysteries of the leister, occupy the terminal chapters. ❋ Various (N/A)

Now this clodding waster (or leister) was a possession of which Tam was inordinately proud; amongst his friends its temper and penetrating power were proverbial. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

Nevertheless, there was in that, too, a strong element of excitement, for the weapon used, the clodding or throwing leister, required no mean skill in the using. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

This leister (or waster) was cast by hand at fish lying in not too deep water -- generally, in fact, when they were on the spawning beds. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

The leister used in "sunning" or in "burning the water" differed somewhat in shape from the weapon with which Tam Purdie secured his big kipper. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

This throwing leister was a heavy spear, or rather a heavy "graip," having five single-barbed prongs of unequal length but regularly graduated. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

A three-tae'd leister on the ither [- toed fish-spear] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

But every time he threw himself upon me, Amelia, who did not want for spunk, dug at him with the two-pronged fork, and stuck it through so many plies of his mantle till he was obliged to cry out, "Here, lassie, lay down that leister, or ye will hae me like miller Tamson's riddle, that the cat can jump through back-foremost." ❋ Unknown (1887)

Fish are caught partly with nets, partly with the hook or with a sort of leister. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

With this little leister the men cast up fish on the ice with incredible dexterity. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

Saying this the reckless youth sallied forth with the spear or leister on his shoulder, and took the narrow bridle path leading up the glen. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The leister of which Master Pearson spoke is a three-pronged fork used for spearing fish. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

-- I think your leister requires a more rigorous definition. ❋ Thomas Garnett (1838)

All the banks and braes reappear green as emerald from the subsiding current -- into which look with the eye of an angler, and you behold a Fish -- a twenty-pounder -- steadying himself -- like an uncertain shadow; and oh! for George Scougal's leister to strike him through the spine! ❋ John Wilson (1819)

a barn; _lax_, a salmon; _lea_, a scythe; _leister_, a fish-spear with prongs and barbs; _lift_, the air, sky; _lig_, to lie down; ❋ Unknown (1873)

You have not got a leister in the boat, have you? ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

With the leister we would soon have a fine one that way, and if we had a lantern ready, we might take a few by 'sunning' besides. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

[Hey] it's Leister ❋ Jesse1206 (2018)