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Definition of Leisters
1. leister [v] - See also: leister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leisters
Literary usage of Leisters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1830)
"No Nets, leisters, &c. to be used without Licence. Fish taken in Nets or otherwise,
in Open Season, to ben-stored to the Proprietor or ..."
2. The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland by Scotland Sheriff Courts (1885)
"A complaint which libelled an offence as having been committed by means of "a
light and leisters, or otherwise," keld to 1ю irrelevant, on the ground that ..."
3. Days and nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed: With a Short Account of the by William Scrope (1898)
"In fine, after a very ludicrous struggle, he shook off my excellent namesake and
flung him on the shore, where he was despatched with the leisters before he ..."
4. Scotland by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson (1907)
"A party of men will steal out some dark night armed with curious iron rods,
called "leisters," which have three sharp prongs at the end of them; and, ..."
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