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zur Strecke legen

English translation: to lay out (the game/bag/take)

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German term or phrase:zur Strecke legen
English translation:to lay out (the game/bag/take)
Entered by: Louise Mawbey

15:23 Jan 18, 2013
German to English translations [PRO]
Livestock / Animal Husbandry / hunting
German term or phrase: zur Strecke legen
I am translating a text about hunting. It says that at the end of the hunt the dead animals are brought together and "zur Strecke gelegt" in order to pay them their last respects. Does anyone know what this is called in English?

TIA
Louise Mawbey
Germany
Local time: 17:23
to lay out (the game/bag/take)
Explanation:
Please see discussion entry (link reproduced here):

24 Laying out of the bag (Streckelegen).
Following a shoot, [ie a day's shooting] the game is laid out on its
right side, in rows [with every tenth beast set back for ease of
counting], according to rank. Rank is as follows, with the best
specimens first, red deer, fallow deer, pig, roe deer,fox, hare,
rabbit, pheasant and other feathered game. When the game is displayed,
the guns take their designated places [usually in a circle] and
wearing their hats and carrying their guns, the horns are played for
each species killed as a mark of respect. One always walks *round* the
game and *NEVER* steps over it.
https://groups.google.com/group/rec.hunting/browse_frm/month...

Here is a similar reference, this time from the US:

He explained that when hunters greet each other, they exchange the "Waidmannsheil," or "hunter's cheer." At the end of a social hunt, all the hunters gather and lay out the day's take in what is known as the "strecke legen."
"It's a very traditional ceremony where they pay respect to the game that was taken that day. They play certain songs and music with their hunting horns, everyone takes off their hat and the person who shot the highest ranked game that day is presented as the king of the hunt," explained Jorstad.
http://www.army.mil/article/89936/The_hunt_is_on_for_the__Ki...


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Alison MacG
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:23
Grading comment
Thanks Alison, that's perfect
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +4to lay out (the game/bag/take)
Alison MacG
3 -3Strung up/out on carcass carriers
Andrew Bramhall


Discussion entries: 7





  

Answers


47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -3
Strung up/out on carcass carriers


Explanation:
"To string up/ out on carcass carriers", or, indeed, for small game, like game birds," bagged", as already suggested.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6135333.html

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:23
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  David Moore (X): Doesn't look to me at all like Alison's reference.//No, but it does help to get the answer, it's not the British tradition we're (Louise is) looking for but a translation to be understood by the reader. So of course any ref. would be similar to Alison's..
1 hr
  -> Sorry, I wasn't aware that any potential answer was duty bound to approximate references supplied by someone else.
disagree  Marie Jammers: with David. Alison's reference is definitely right. A quick google search verifies this with images of this custom. --> I am very sorry, Oliver. I did not mean to offend you in any way. I simply voiced my opinion.
1 hr
  -> Well, how jolly for you.
disagree  Cetacea: There are absolutely no "carcass carriers" involved in this custom; the game is simply laid out.
1 day 19 hrs
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3 days 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
to lay out (the game/bag/take)


Explanation:
Please see discussion entry (link reproduced here):

24 Laying out of the bag (Streckelegen).
Following a shoot, [ie a day's shooting] the game is laid out on its
right side, in rows [with every tenth beast set back for ease of
counting], according to rank. Rank is as follows, with the best
specimens first, red deer, fallow deer, pig, roe deer,fox, hare,
rabbit, pheasant and other feathered game. When the game is displayed,
the guns take their designated places [usually in a circle] and
wearing their hats and carrying their guns, the horns are played for
each species killed as a mark of respect. One always walks *round* the
game and *NEVER* steps over it.
https://groups.google.com/group/rec.hunting/browse_frm/month...

Here is a similar reference, this time from the US:

He explained that when hunters greet each other, they exchange the "Waidmannsheil," or "hunter's cheer." At the end of a social hunt, all the hunters gather and lay out the day's take in what is known as the "strecke legen."
"It's a very traditional ceremony where they pay respect to the game that was taken that day. They play certain songs and music with their hunting horns, everyone takes off their hat and the person who shot the highest ranked game that day is presented as the king of the hunt," explained Jorstad.
http://www.army.mil/article/89936/The_hunt_is_on_for_the__Ki...




Alison MacG
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:23
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks Alison, that's perfect

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Moore (X)
27 mins
  -> Thank you, David
agree  Ramey Rieger (X): Absolutely
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Ramey
agree  Clive Phillips
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Clive
agree  Cetacea
15 hrs
  -> Thanks, Cetacea
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