Definition of "jaeger"

The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ...

2007 January 16, David E. Petzal, “Rifle That Made America”, in Field and Stream‎, archived from the original on 20 April 2021

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