单词 | jay-hawker |
释义 | jay-hawkern. U.S. A name given to members of the bands who carried on irregular warfare in and around eastern Kansas, in the free soil conflict, and the early part of the American civil war, and who combined pillage with guerrilla fighting: hence, generally, a raiding guerrilla or irregular soldier. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > guerrilla > [noun] > specific jay-hawker1860 bushwhacker1862 comitadji1903 chetnik1909 partisan1917 shifta1920 fellagha1922 maquisard1944 mujahidin1947 Tupamaro1969 terr1976 1860 Ashtabula Sentinel 26 Dec. 5/3 By the term ‘Jayhawkers’ is here [sc. in Mound City, Kansas] understood the active fighting abolitionists. 1861 Proclam. Gen. James Lane Oct. We are soldiers, not thieves or plunderers or jayhawkers. 1862 N.Y. World 8 Jan. This expression [sc. Gay Yorker was afterwards used to designate his sc. Colonel Jennison's] men, and in its various travels naturally underwent many changes, until at last it crystallized into Jayhawker. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 July 5/1 Jay-hawkers, cutthroats, and thieves. 1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi x. 125 Found all the settlers justifying the ‘Jay-hawkers’, a name universally applied to Montgomery's men, from the celerity of their movements and their habit of suddenly pouncing upon an enemy. 1888 St. Louis Globe Democrat 20 Jan. in J. S. Farmer Dict. Americanisms He was connected with what is known as the Jayhawker war that raged on the borders of Kansas about twenty-five years since. 1900 R. Kipling in Times 15 Mar. 8/1 Suppose that you who read these lines had been out with Rimington's jay-hawkers or somebody else's fly-by-nights, riding hard and sleeping light for weeks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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