jaeger

• jager, jäger, yager

A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjeɪɡə/

jaeger (plural jaegers)

Wikispecies

1. Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.
2. A hunter's guide.
3. A rifle.
   • 2007 January 16, David E. Petzal, “Rifle That Made America”, in Field and Stream‎:

     The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ...

4. 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, page 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 --

• (bird of the genus Stercorarius): skua

• pomarine jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus
• parasitic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus
• long-tailed jaeger, Stercorarius longicaudus

• jaeger at OneLook Dictionary Search
• jaeger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.