JAYHAWKER

Noun

jayhawker (plural jayhawkers)

(historical) An abolitionist raider in the Kansas-Missouri border skirmishes during the American Civil War.

Any robber or bandit.

Source: Wiktionary


Jay"hawk`er, n.

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

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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