jaeger

Etymology

A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.

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 ... 2007-01-16, David E. Petzal, “Rifle That Made America”, in Field and Stream, archived from the original on 2021-04-20
4. A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry.
   These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers. 2010, Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser, Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory (Historical Fiction), St. Martin's Press
   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 -- 2011 Spring, Adam Goodheart, “Civil Warfare in the Streets”, in American Scholar, volume 80, number 2, pages 20–32