Anglicized spelling of G. jäger, jaeger: see JAGER 1, 2.
1804. Ann. Reg., Chron., 424/2. The light companies and yagers were sent out and skirmished.
1809. Byron, Bards & Rev., xv. All hail, M. P. … At whose command ‘grim women’ throng in crowds… With ‘small gray men,’ ‘wild yagers,’ and what not.
1809. Campbell, Gert. Wyom., III. xxi. And first the wild Moravian yagers pass.
1812. Examiner, 6 Sept., 562/1. The 8th Uhlans, and the 10th regiments of foot Yagers; both Poles, are nearly cut up.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., V. lvii. 176. He [sc. the landgrave] bargained to supply four hundred Hessian yagers, armed with rifled guns.
b. A rifle. U.S.
1840. C. F. Hoffman, Greyslaer, I. i. He instantly brought his yager to his shoulder.
1848. H. W. Herbert, Field Sports U.S., II. 254. Throughout the South and South-West,… the yager, as it is called, or short-barrelled, large-bored piece, is universally preferred.
