JAEGER : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: JAEGER	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for JAEGER
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jaeger n rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jager \Ja"ger\, n. [G. j[84]ger a hunter, a sportsman. Cf. {Yager}.] [Written also {jaeger}.] 1. (Mil.) A sharpshooter. See {Yager}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any species of gull of the genus {Stercorarius}. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also {boatswain}, and {marline-spike bird}. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull ({Megalestris skua}).