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Re: Help with Word Definition

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Originally Posted by VtwinVince

As we know, it is a verb in German, not a noun.

Well, now that we've looked it up it does seem to be (or have been) a noun as well but either a technical forestry term and/or an old-fashioned one. I'd certainly never seen any book reference to Jagen in night fighting that offered an English translation, so quite possibly the authors concerend saw it as an acronym.

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