jaeger
Appearance
See also: Jaeger
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjeɪɡəɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjeɪɡə/
Noun
[edit]jaeger (plural jaegers)
- Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.
- A hunter's guide.
- A rifle.
- 2007 January 16, David E. Petzal, “Rifle That Made America”, in Field and Stream[1], archived from the original on 20 April 2021:
- The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ...
- A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry.
- 2010, Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser, Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory (Historical Fiction), St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
- These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers.
- 2011 Spring, Adam Goodheart, “Civil Warfare in the Streets”, in American Scholar, volume 80, number 2, pages 20–32:
- St. Louis, however, was not a place where such things could be kept secret for long. By early March, Democratic papers carried reports of a terrifying new battalion known as the Black Jaegers --
Synonyms
[edit]- (bird of the genus Stercorarius): skua
Derived terms
[edit]- pomarine jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus
- parasitic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus
- long-tailed jaeger, Stercorarius longicaudus
Translations
[edit]seabird
hunter's guide
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rifle — see rifle
soldier
References
[edit]- “jaeger”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “jaeger”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.