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jaeger

[yey-ger; for 1 also jey-ger]
noun
  1. any of several rapacious seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that pursue weaker birds to make them drop their prey.
  2. a hunter.
  3. a member of any of several groups of sharpshooters in the German or Austrian army.
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Also jager, jäger, yager (for defs 2, 3).

Origin of jaeger

1770–80; < German Jäger hunter, equivalent to jag(en) to hunt + -er -er1
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Examples from the Web for jaeger

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  • How maddening if, seeing that I was an unprotected man, they palmed off Jaeger on me!

    Once a Week

    Alan Alexander Milne

  • One had but to be near Master Jaeger for a time, and he could feel the power, just as I can feel it now.

    Indirection

    Everett B. Cole

  • Patsy could just see the jaeger's teeth bared in a permanent grin.

    Patsy

    S. R. Crockett

  • Jaeger was the detective who haunted the boxes at the opera.

    The Magic Curtain

    Roy J. Snell

  • Jaeger is watching the other, and the dark one is watching me.

    The Magic Curtain

    Roy J. Snell

British Dictionary definitions for jaeger

jaeger

noun
  1. military a marksman in certain units of the German or Austrian armies
  2. a member of a light or mountain infantry unit in some European armies
  3. US and Canadian any of several skuas of the genus Stercorarius
  4. rare a hunter or hunter's attendant
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Also (for senses 1, 2, 4): jager, jäger

Word Origin

C18: from German Jäger hunter, from jagen to hunt; see yacht
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