Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jayhawker

Jayhawker , noun

[A term of opprobrium used in the war of 1861-65, U. S.]

A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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