ljóstr

ljóstr
(gen. -rs), m. salmon-spear.
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m., the r is radical, [Scot. leister; Ivar Aasen ljoster; Swed. ljustra; Scot. leister; cp. the description in Scott’s Guy Mannering]:—a salmon-spear, Pr. 454: metaph. in upp-ljóstr.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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