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1. (of a crane) Standing on one leg, typically holding a stone in its other, raised leg.
   • Crest. A crane in its vigilance. Motto. Vigilantia (Seal on Col Paumiér's will). 1983, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society:
   • If by chance it falls asleep, the stone would drop and thus awaken it. In heraldry, the cranes most often were presented as in vigilance. 1977, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, A Design for an Education Center at the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin:
   • Or, a crane in her vigilance, azure, standing in reeds proper. 1943, National Americana Society, Americana Illustrated, page 133:
   • Arms : Azure standing within a crown gold surmounting a conical mound in base vert a crane in her vigilance all silver. 1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms, page 10:
   • KHVOSHCHINSKY -1- A : Per fess gules and azure, in chief fesswise a crescent points couped in pale Or, and in base a crane in its vigilance, proper. 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:
   • Quarterly; 1st and 4th azure, crane in his vigilance argent, gorged of a crown or; second and third[…] 1973, Helen B. Walter, Robert J. Walter, Nicola Walter and Descendants: