jaeger

See also: Jaeger

English

Stercorarius pomarinus

Alternative forms

• jager, Jäger, jäger, yager

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjeɪɡəɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjeɪɡə/

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^[1], archived from the original on 20 April 2021:

     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, 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

• (bird of the genus Stercorarius): skua

Derived terms

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

Translations

seabird

• Asturian: cágalu (ast), fernandón (ast)
• Bulgarian: морелетник m (moreletnik)
• Danish: kjove c
• Faroese: kjógvi m
• Finnish: kihu (fi)
• Icelandic: kjói (is) m
• Norwegian: jo (no) c
• Russian: помо́рник (ru) m (pomórnik)
• Swedish: labb (sv) c

hunter's guide

• Finnish: metsästysopas
• Russian: е́герь (ru) m (jégerʹ)

rifle — see rifle

soldier

• Bulgarian: егер m (eger)
• Finnish: jääkäri (fi)
• Polish: jegier (pl) m
• Russian: е́герь (ru) m (jégerʹ)

References

• “jaeger”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “jaeger”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.