[f. LEISTER sb.] trans. To spear with a leister.
1834. Hogg, Dom. Mann. Scott (1882), 11. He [Scott] and Skene of Rubislaw, and I were out one night about midnight, leistering kippers in Tweed.
1861. J. Brown, Horæ Subs., II. 243. The poaching weaver who had the night before leistered a prime kipper.
1881. Blackw. Mag., April, 530/1. They burned the water and leistered the salmon, all in the way of honest sport.
Hence Leistering vbl. sb. Also Leisterer.
1843. W. Scrope, Salmon Fish. Tweed, xi. 237. The side on which the leisterers strike the fish.
1867. Times, 30 Dec., 8/6. Conviction of Salmon Leisterers. Ibid. The process of salmon leistering by night with the aid of torch and spear has been immortalized by Sir Walter Scott in his Waverly novels.
