Etymology A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.
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Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.
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A hunter's guide.
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A rifle.
The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ...2007 January 16, David E. Petzal, “Rifle That Made America”, in Field and Stream, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2021:
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A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry.
These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers.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:
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 --2011 Spring, Adam Goodheart, “Civil Warfare in the Streets”, in American Scholar, volume 80, number 2, pages 20–32:
Etymology From the company name of Dr Gustav Jaeger's Sanitary Woollen Systems Co. Ltd.
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The proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing.
'I have a good comfortable dressing-gown of Jaeger material.'1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 110:
His nether half was clad in lightweight Jaeger combinations which stretched to the ankle and through the fly-slit of which depended the royal member with its innocent pink tip.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445: