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Rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
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jaeger
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Jaeger was an automobile built in Belleville, Michigan by the Jaeger Motor Car Company from 1932-33. The Jaeger was powered by a six-cylinder Continental engine, rated at 70 bhp. Wire wheels were standard on the vehicle, with a V-radiator grille and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jager \Ja"ger\, n. [G. j["a]ger a hunter, a sportsman. Cf. Yager .] [Written also jaeger .] (Mil.) A sharpshooter. See Yager . (Zo["o]l.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius . Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius 2 A hunter's guide 3 A rifle
Usage examples of jaeger.
Jaeger was now climbing up the bleachers, wearing his green game jersey with the number 5 in white with silver trim, tucked tightly into his jeans.
Jaeger turned through a gate and started up the bleachers, twenty rows, then along the top rail, then down twenty rows to the next section.
Shaw, it is said, tired of socialism, weary of wearing Jaegers, and broken down by teetotalism and vegetarianism, sought, some years ago, an escape from them.
Jaeger in 1770 at Tubingen describes the metastasis of milk to the umbilicus, Haen to the back, and Schurig to a wound in the foot.
He had built the hunter carefully, selectively destroying negative influences and preventing Jaeger from obsessing unhealthfully about anything.
As Jaeger continued, Partridge observed Sloane and thought the anchorman looked ghastly, even more pale and gaunt than yesterday, though it was not surprising with the growing strain.
The tackroom and workshops of the stables housing the horses of the Carinthian Jaegers has been destroyed by fire and he has a big order for new harness in time for a state parade in October.
The state harness for the cavalry of the Carinthian Jaegers is to be collected the same week as the concert - but he comes out occasionally to stand on the pavement and listens to Sigismund practising.
It was the Carinthian Jaegers marching with a full band and you know how smart they are.
The jaegers circled, the longspurs tumbled on their wings, and at last Silver came home.
Jaeger was now senior producer since Rita Abrams had left for Teterboro Airport and her Peru flight an hour ago.
The colonel and Rex went off once or twice with the Jaegers, but in a halfhearted way, bringing back more experience than game.
Partridge and Jaeger carefully crossed the confluence of thoroughfares as traffic swirled about them.
But she’d graduated from Osgoode Hall—York University’s lawschool—finished articling, and was sliding into a $180,000-a-year associate’s position at Cooper Jaeger.
Don't give inI A surprising number, though, saw no harm in the kidnappers' demands being met as a price of the prisoners' release, prompting Norm Jaeger to comment in disgust, "Can't those birdbrains grasp the principles involved?