jay-hawk, v. U.S.
[A back-formation from next.]
trans. To harry as a jay-hawker; to ‘raid’.
| 1866 Standard 27 Oct. 3/2 A war of neighbourhoods..of lynchings and jay-hawkings, of rapine and outrage without parallel. 1893 Scribner's Mag. XIII. 381/2 Every man suddenly discovering that somebody has jayhawked his boots or his blanket. |