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yager
Part of speech: NounIn Prussia, a rifleman; in Austria, a mountaineer belonging to a body of light infantry.
Usage examples "yager":- Nance might have managed Mr. Snawdor, however, had it not been for the grave problem of Fidy Yager. - "Calvary Alley", Alice Hegan Rice.
- A little farther on, however, we met a Russian yager, or rifleman, coming back and holding out his hand, which had been wounded, and from which the blood was flowing pretty copiously. - "Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade", William Surtees.
- Brown was hanged; so was Yager; but Yager, before his death, made a full confession which put the Vigilantes in possession of information they had never yet been able to secure. - "The Passing of the Frontier A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles Of America Series", Emerson Hough.