jägerjaegern.
/ˈjeɪɡə/ 1. A (German or Swiss) huntsman or hunter.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun]
huntc1000
huntera1325
cacherec1340
pricasourc1387
waithmanc1425
chaser1470
huntsman1567
pricker1575
Nimrod1623
venator1656
fieldmana1683
sportsman1699
coureur de bois1700
sporting parson1757
chasseur1796
jäger1823
shikari1827
venerer1845
hunting-man1859
gamer1887
hunterman1891
veldman1895
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 14 All hail, M.P...At whose command, ‘grim women’ throng in crouds..With ‘small grey men’, ‘wild yagers’, and what-not.]
1823 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 139 The king has his forest masters; his chasseurs, piqueurs, jägers, &c.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn (1894) iv. 16 I..ran at full speed up to the jager, and offered him five shillings if he would come down and shoot the bird.
1880 ‘Ouida’ 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. Originally 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.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > rifleman
hunter1753
rifleman1764
shirtman1775
jäger1776
yager1804
bersagliere1862
shootist1864
rifle1933
society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > rifle
hunter1753
rifleman1764
rifler1775
shirtman1775
jäger1776
yager1804
rifle shot1826
bersagliere1862
1776 in F. Moore Songs & Ball. Amer. Rev. (1856) 125 (note) [The British Government] has..succeeded in raising a legion of Jagers.
1783 H. Clinton Narr. 112 Detachments from four British battalions, and Iagers, artillery and cavalry.
1815 Duke of Wellington Let. to Alten 6 June in Dispatches (1838) XII. 446 You shall have the field Jägers in your division.
1848 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (ed. 7) IX. xl. 112 The Austrian army consists of..twenty battalions of grenadiers, the corps of jagers of thirteen battalions [etc.].
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 6 Oct. 259/1 These jägers were good shots, and generally fired at gilt uniforms and epaulets.
3. An attendant upon a person of rank or wealth, dressed in a huntsman's costume. Cf. chasseur n. 3.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried > dressed in specific style
heyduck1615
chasseur1765
jäger1831
1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke I. ii. viii. 226 Supervised by his Jager, who stood behind his chair.
1835 Court Mag. 6 193 The old Iager or garde-chasse who accompanied her.
1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 279 He saw poor Macdonald the Jäger here.. and, being in want of a Jäger, inquired after him and engaged him.
4. A predatory sea-bird belonging to the family Laridæ, and subfamily Stercorariinæ or Lestridinæ; a skua-gull.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > stercorarius parasiticus
allana1612
boatswain1785
gull-teaser1802
Richardson's jaeger1831
Richardson's skua1834
jäger1838
bosun1874
marlinspike1884
1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 633/1 The skua..the pomarine jager..and Richardson's jager, which is common on our coasts in autumn.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 337/1 Lestris Parasiticus (Arctic Jager).
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiii. 99 The Fulmar petrel, a solitary jager.
1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. VIII. 829 The jägers or gull hunters, so called because they pursue the smaller gulls, and rob them of..food.
1894 Outing 23 366/2 We also killed some jaegers and small bladder-nosed seals.
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