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▪ I. yager|ˈjeɪgə(r)|
Anglicized spelling of G. jäger, jaeger: see jäger 1, 2.
1804Ann. Reg., Chron. 424/2 The light companies and yagers were sent out and skirmished. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. xv, All hail, M.P...At whose command ‘grim women’ throng in crowds..With ‘small gray men’, ‘wild yagers’, and what not. 1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. iii. xxi, And first the wild Moravian yagers pass. 1812Examiner 7 Sept. 562/1 The 8th Uhlans, and the 10th regiments of foot Yagers; both Poles, are nearly cut up. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. lvii. 176 He [sc. the landgrave] bargained to supply four hundred Hessian yagers, armed with rifled guns.
b. An obsolete kind of rifle. Also yager rifle. U.S.
1817E. P. Fordham Narr. Trav. (1906) 141 Sent the two P―s..for the yager rifle, and the Wallet. 1826T. Flint Francis Berrian I. 60 Their trade with the Americans supplied them with rifles and yagers. 1840C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer i. i, He instantly brought his yager to his shoulder. 1848H. W. Herbert Field Sports U.S. II. 254 Throughout the South and South-West,..the yager, as it is called, or short-barrelled, large-bored piece, is universally preferred. a1918G. Stuart 40 Yrs. on Frontier (1925) I. 187 Nine Pipes..came to get a nipple to put on his Yager rifle.
▪ II. yager, yagger
var. jagger3. |