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A leister is a type of spear used for fishing.
Leister may also refer to:
- Leister Technologies, a Swiss company
- Leister Peak, located in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
- Trident, a three-pronged spear
Leister AG is a manufacturer of hot air plastic welding equipment, process heat components, laser welding systems, gas sensor equipment and micro-optics. The company is currently based in Kaegiswil, near Sarnen in Switzerland. It was founded in 1949 by Karl Leister. Leister ist active in more than 120 countries around the world. About 98% of Leister production is exported.
Leister Peak is a peak 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Early Bluff in the Kohler Range, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Geoffrey L. Leister, a biologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program Marie Byrd Land Survey Party, 1966–67.
Trident is a three-pronged spear. It is used for spear fishing and historically as a polearm. The trident is the weapon of Poseidon, or Neptune, the God of the Sea in classical mythology. In Hindu mythology, it is the weapon of Shiva, known as trishula. It has been used by farmers as a decorticator to remove leaves, seeds, and buds from the stalks of plants such as flax and hemp.
People with the surname Leister:
- Brenton Leister (born 1985), English football player
- Frederick Leister (1885–1970), English actor
- John Leister (born 1961), former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Karl Leister (born 1937), world-renowned classical clarinet player
Frederick Leister was an English actor. He began his career in musical comedy, and after serving in the First World War he played character roles in modern West End plays and in classic drama. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1922 and 1961.
John William Leister is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox. He has also been a baseball and football coach.
Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. As a teenager, he was accepted into the Komische Oper Berlin under Václav Neumann and Walter Felsenstein as clarinet soloist.
