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Definition of Jayhawker
1. n. A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla.
Definition of Jayhawker
1. Noun. An abolitionist raider in the Kansas-Missouri border skirmishes during the American Civil War ¹
2. Noun. a robber or bandit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jayhawker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jayhawker
Literary usage of Jayhawker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Bourbon County, Kansas: To the Close of 1865 by T. F. Robley (1894)
"ORIGIN OF "jayhawker." On this trip the word, jayhawker, originated. Jennison had
with him a regular all-around thief named Pat Devlin. ..."
2. Men I Have Fished with: Sketches of Characters and Incidents with Rod and by Fred Mather (1897)
"But one day the mail at West Albany brought the following: "GREENBUSH, December
18, 1859. "You OLD jayhawker: Old Port will serve a 'coon, ..."
3. Men I Have Fished with: Sketches of Characters and Incidents with Rod and by Fred Mather (1897)
"But one day the mail at West Albany brought the following: "GREENBUSH, December
18,1859. "You OLD jayhawker: Old Port will serve a 'coon, ..."
4. Men I Have Fished with: Sketches of Characters and Incidents with Rod and by Fred Mather (1897)
"But one day the mail at West Albany brought the following: , December 18, 1859.
"You OLD jayhawker: Old Port will serve a 'coon, with all the trimmings, ..."
5. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1889)
"would not, I am sure, have me encroach upon the dearest privilege of the average
jayhawker, and throw away more ink in a cause that has already consumed ..."
6. Kansas; a Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1912)
"The origin of the term "jayhawker" appears to be veiled in uncertainty. ...
At any rate, ours was the crowd that created the word 'jayhawker' at the date ..."
7. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"jayhawker. A cant name in the Western States for a lawless or other soldier not
enlisted; a freebooting armed man; a guerilla. ..."
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