v. [? a. Sw. leka to play: see LAKE v.1 (cf. quot. 1884 s.v. LAKING vbl. sb.1).] intr. Said of grouse: To congregate. Also Lek sb., a gathering or congregating.
1871. Darwin, Desc. Man, XIV. (1883), 405. As many as forty or fifty, or even more birds congregate at the leks. The lek of the capercailzie lasts from the end of March to the … end of May.
1884. Dixon, in H. Seebohm, Hist. Birds, II. 436. Some particular spot is chosen in their haunts, where they [black grouse] congregate, or lek, as it is sometimes called.
