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Definition of Gayals
1. gayal [n] - See also: gayal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gayals
Literary usage of Gayals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"The Kookies, having observed the gayals to have once tasted their balls, prepare
a sufficient supply of them to answer the intended purpose, ..."
2. A Monograph of the Genus Bos: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and by George Vasey (1857)
""gayals have been domesticated among the ... but rear the gayals entirely for
the sake of their flesh and skins; they make their shields of the hides of ..."
3. Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vernor and Hood (1808)
"But wild gayals are found in the mountains of ... Cuds, and Khas'is (tribes of
mountaineers), keep gayals for the sake of the flesh, not for the milk, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"gayals have been domesticated among the ... use whatever of the milk, but rear
the gayals entirely for the sake of their flesh and skins. ..."
5. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1891)
"If this were substantiated, it might account for the descriptions by Mr. Macrae of
the taming of the wild' gayals' by the Kukis, ..."
6. Horns and Hoofs: Or Chapters on Hoofed Animals by Richard Lydekker (1893)
"... the account given by Mr. Macrae years ago of the taming of wild gayals by the
Kuki tribes not improbably referring to the gaur. ..."
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