Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In United States history, in the early part of the civil war and previously, a member of one of the bands which carried on an irregular warfare in and around eastern Kansas.
  • noun A large spider or tarantula, as species of Mygale.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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Examples

  • Now they spend every night together on her small twin bed in Jayhawker Towers.

    When Teddy Comes To College 2010

  • Now they spend every night together on her small twin bed in Jayhawker Towers.

    When Teddy Comes To College 2010

  • Jayhawker Ponds in Loveland, CO, is the site of reports of a "giant reptile," five to seven feet in length, over the last few weeks.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Living the life of a Jayhawker socialite, Lottie works as director of the Carlton County Historical Society; a role she thought would be fun.

    Deadly Descent-Charlotte Hinger « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • Wildlife officers have set up mountain lion traps on the banks of Jayhawker Ponds to see if they can trap whatever the creature is (crocodilian, perhaps) that has been reported in the water.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • With the admission of Kansas as a free state in 1861, Jayhawker became synonymous with the people of Kansas.

    “Jayhawks” « Christopher Colaninno 2008

  • From Baxter Springs northeastward to the Sedalia railhead, the country was thick with new settlers, Jayhawker farmers, most of them recent battlefield enemies of the Texans.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Jayhawker who had left the farm in Kansas and had gone to sea for two years.

    Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

  • For a man who, two years before, had never heard of a Jayhawker, who hoped the barren prairies would furnish seclusion for profound research in his library, and whose interest in the student body lay in its material to furnish "types," Dean Burgess, on the outside, certainly measured up well toward the stature of the real Dean -- broad-minded, beloved "Funnybone."

    A Master's Degree 1913

  • The ruddy color deepened in Vic Burleigh's brown cheek, but the steadfast gaze of his eyes and the firm lines of his mouth told the head of Sunrise something of what he would find in the sturdy young Jayhawker.

    A Master's Degree 1913

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