leister

1. (transitive) To catch or spear (fish) with a leister.Examples: "We once knew a notorious salmon poacher, who, on one of his excursions, saw a pair of salmon spawning in a stream. He leistered the male from the side of the female, and as soon as she missed her partner, she retired from the spawning-bed into the pool below the ford, and very soon returned with another male, which the poacher also leistered."; "You are quite correct, sir, […] in what you say about the quantity of oil in the heads of these fish [gurnets or gurnards]. […] [T]he heads [of the fish are] placed with their mouths upward, and a small quantity of tow placed in each mouth. When they [the poachers] reach the stream where they are to leister the salmon, the tow is lighted, the fire immediately communicates with the lips of the fish, and a beautiful clear light is emitted, which continues to burn for a considerable time. Sometimes also a single head, thus prepared and dried, is fixed at the end of a stick, and is used as a torch, when a poacher goes leistering single-handed."; "No sport (hare-hunting excepted) gave more delight to the master of Abbotsford than the leistering of a salmon by the light of a pine-wood torch in the early part of a long winter's night, when a feast on some occasions would be improvised, a fire would be kindled, and a kettle would be got ready; […]"transitive