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Definition of Jaeger

1. Noun. Rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey.

Definition of Jaeger

1. n. See Jager.

Definition of Jaeger

1. Noun. The proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing. ¹

2. Noun. Any of three seabirds in the skua genus ''Stercorarius'' ¹

3. Noun. A hunter's guide ¹

4. Noun. A rifle ¹

5. Noun. A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jaeger

1. a hunter [n -S] - See also: hunter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jaeger

Literary usage of Jaeger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"January 25th, with + 2*-ь D. Sph. for the right, and + З4-*1 D. Sph. for the left eye, read Jaeger 5 easily, and could read a few lines of Jaeger i. ..."

2. A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America by Thomas Nuttall (1896)
"This species has been incorrectly named the Arctic Jaeger, — or Skua, as the birds of this group are called by British Ornithologists,— for it is less ..."

3. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1881)
"IN our last we alluded to the experiments of Dr. Jaeger, which were said by him to ... Dr. Jaeger is the author of several works on Zoology and Physiology, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"The Jaeger types are read best at 12 and 15 cm., respectively: there is practically no accommodative range. March \lth. Patient almost as bad as ever; ..."

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