Definition of "leisters" []

• Plural form of leister. (noun)

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• "The illumination of the banks of the river, the activity of the men striking the salmon with the "leisters," and the shouting of the people when a fish was struck, was an animated, and picturesque, but cruel scene."
• "Rifles, snowmobiles, and gasoline are now as effective a part of Inuit subsistence as dog teams, seal oil lamps, and fishing leisters were sixty years ago."
• "After surveying his ancestors 'portraits we adjourned to the hall, which was furnished with battle-axes, Jethart spears, basket-hilted swords, maces, salmon leisters, masks of otters and foumarts, foxes and badgers, and all the various trophies of Border sport and warfare of old time."