graylag

plural graylags

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of greylag.

   Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.

   1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405

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   1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016, Wild Geese. — February 29th. Saw a skein of ten wild geese flying a few feet above the Humber this morning : from their size and colour I believe them to have been graylags.

   With reference to Konrad Lorenz's famous graylags, which assure each other of their solidarity by the display of common aggression against a nonexistent interloper, Burkert defines ritual as “action redirected for demonstration.”

   2012, Mikael Aktor, “Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books”, in Ute Hüsken, Frank Neubert, editors, Negotiating Rites, page 24

   Synonyms: greylag