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‖ jäger, jaeger|ˈjeːgə(r)|
Also 8–9 jager, iager, and anglicized yager, q.v.
[G. jäger hunter, f. jagen to hunt, chase. Cf. chasseur.]
1. A (German or Swiss) huntsman or hunter.
1809[see yager]. 1823W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 139 The king has his forest masters; his chasseurs, piqueurs, jägers, &c. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn iv. (1894) 16, I..ran at full speed up to the jager, and offered him five shillings if he would come down and shoot the bird. 1880Ouida Moths II. 337 A jäger brought to the hotel a grand golden eagle.
2. A rifleman or sharpshooter in a corps of German soldiers, or one forming part of a German or Austrian army. Orig. applied to the members of various bodies of light infantry, recruited mainly from foresters and armed with a huntsman's equipment, but the jägers subsequently formed certain special battalions (for the most part organized as riflemen) in the German and Austrian armies, and the name is still retained in the official title of some regiments.
1776in F. Moore Songs & Ball. Amer. Rev. (1856) 125 note, [The British Government] has..succeeded in raising a legion of Jagers. 1783Sir H. Clinton Narrative 112 Detachments from four British battalions, and Iagers, artillery and cavalry. 1815Wellington Let. to Alten 6 June in Gurw. Desp. XII. 446 You shall have the field Jägers in your division. 1837Alison Europe (1847) IX. xl. 112 The Austrian army consists of..twenty battalions of grenadiers, the corps of jagers of thirteen battalions [etc.]. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 6 Oct. 259/1 These jägers were good shots, and generally fired at gilt uniforms and epaulets.
attrib.1844W. Siborne Waterloo I. v. 110 The two jäger-companies in the wood.
3. An attendant upon a person of rank or wealth, dressed in a huntsman's costume. Cf. chasseur 3.
1831Disraeli Yng. Duke ii. viii, Supervised by his Jager, who stood behind his chair. 1835Court Mag. VI. 193 The old Iager or garde-chasse who accompanied her. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 279 He saw poor Macdonald the Jäger here.. and, being in want of a Jäger, inquired after him and engaged him.
attrib.1896A. H. Beavan Marlb. Ho. vii. 114 A handsome dark young fellow..clad in picturesque jäger costume.
4. A predatory sea-bird belonging to the family Laridæ, and subfamily Stercorariinæ or Lestridinæ; a skua-gull.
1838Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XVI. 633/1 The skua..the pomarine jager..and Richardson's jager, which is common on our coasts in autumn. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 337/1 Lestris Parasiticus (Arctic Jager). 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xiii. (1856) 99 The Fulmar petrel, a solitary jager. 1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. (U.S.) VIII. 829 The jägers or gull hunters, so called because they pursue the smaller gulls, and rob them of..food. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIII. 366/2 We also killed some jaegers and small bladder-nosed seals. |