Usage examples (25)

• Bait fishing for salmon, and the darker, though torch-illumined, mysteries of the leister, occupy the terminal chapters.
• 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.
• 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."
• This throwing leister was a heavy spear, or rather a heavy "graip," having five single-barbed prongs of unequal length but regularly graduated.