Usually means: Spear used for spearing fish.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word leister:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. leister: Merriam-Webster
  2. leister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leister: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leister, leister: Wordnik
  7. Leister, leister: Wiktionary
  8. leister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. leister: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Leister, leister: Dictionary.com
  11. Leister (disambiguation), Leister: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Leister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. leister: Rhymezone
  14. leister: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Leister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. leister: FreeDictionary.org
  17. leister: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. leister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. leister: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See leistering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Leister)

noun:  (fishing) A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon.
verb:  (transitive) To catch or spear (fish) with a leister.
noun:  A surname.

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