jaeger

noun

1. Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.
2. A hunter's guide.
3. A rifle.

   “The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ...”

4. A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry.

   “These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers.”

   “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 --”

5. The proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing.

   “'I have a good comfortable dressing-gown of Jaeger material.'”

   “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.”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Jäger: (informal) Jägermeister