leister

• “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.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “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.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “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.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “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.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “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.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “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.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “This throwing leister was a heavy spear, or rather a heavy "graip," having five single-barbed prongs of unequal length but regularly graduated.”

  Stories of the Border Marches

• “Bait fishing for salmon, and the darker, though torch-illumined, mysteries of the leister, occupy the terminal chapters.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

• “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.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

• “A three-tae'd leister on the ither [- toed fish-spear]”

  Robert Burns How To Know Him

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