Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to leister
Participle: leistered
Gerund: leistering
Indicative
Present
| I | leister |
| you | leister |
| he;she;it | leisters |
| we | leister |
| you | leister |
| they | leister |
Perfect
| I | have leistered |
| you | have leistered |
| he;she;it | has leistered |
| we | have leistered |
| you | have leistered |
| they | have leistered |
Past
| I | leistered |
| you | leistered |
| he;she;it | leistered |
| we | leistered |
| you | leistered |
| they | leistered |
Pluperfect
| I | had leistered |
| you | had leistered |
| he;she;it | had leistered |
| we | had leistered |
| you | had leistered |
| they | had leistered |
Future
| I | will leister |
| you | will leister |
| he;she;it | will leister |
| we | will leister |
| you | will leister |
| they | will leister |
Future Perfect
| I | will have leistered |
| you | will have leistered |
| he;she;it | will have leistered |
| we | will have leistered |
| you | will have leistered |
| they | will have leistered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | leister |
| you | leister |
| he;she;it | leister |
| we | leister |
| you | leister |
| they | leister |
Perfect
| I | have leistered |
| you | have leistered |
| he;she;it | have leistered |
| we | have leistered |
| you | have leistered |
| they | have leistered |
Imperfect
| I | leistered |
| you | leistered |
| he;she;it | leistered |
| we | leistered |
| you | leistered |
| they | leistered |
Pluperfect
| I | had leistered |
| you | had leistered |
| he;she;it | had leistered |
| we | had leistered |
| you | had leistered |
| they | had leistered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would leister |
| you | would leister |
| he;she;it | would leister |
| we | would leister |
| you | would leister |
| they | would leister |
Perfect
| I | would have leistered |
| you | would have leistered |
| he;she;it | would have leistered |
| we | would have leistered |
| you | would have leistered |
| they | would have leistered |
Imperative
| you | leister |
| we | Let's leister |
| you | leister |
Verbs conjugated like 'leister'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leister'
keister,
blister,
cloister,
dister,
easter,
fester,
glister,
letter,
listen,
litter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster. See: Proto-Germanic '
*leustaną', Icelandic '
ljósta'.
Verbs referencing "leister"
Norwegian
lystre.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1848, Andrew Young, The Natural History & Habits of the Salmon, […], Wick, Caithness: Published by Peter Reid. …, →OCLC, page 17:]
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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. [1865, [Walter Frederick Campbell], “A Norman Breakfast and a Stroll”, in John Francis Campbell, editor, Life in Normandy: Sketches of French Fishing, Farming, Cooking, Natural History and Politics Drawn from Nature, 3rd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, →OCLC, pages 50–51:]
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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; […] [1890, “Ellangowen” [pseudonym; James Glass Bertram], “Trout and Sport in the Borders”, in Out-door Sports in Scotland: Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, Salmon Fishing, Golfing, Curling, &c. […], 2nd edition, London; Calcutta: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 310–311:]