English

Noun

Jaeger ‎(plural Jaegers)

1. The proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 445:

     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.

English

Alternative forms

• jager, jäger, yager

Noun

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 9780312591076:

     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 --

Synonyms

• (bird of the genus Stercorarius): skua

Derived terms

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

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