DRAGOON

dragoon

(noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

dragoon

(verb) subjugate by imposing troops

dragoon, sandbag, railroad

(verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; “They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

dragoon (plural dragoons)

(military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.

A carrier of a dragon musket.

A variety of pigeon.

Coordinate terms

(soldier):

• cavalryman

• cuirassier

• hussar

• lancer

• trooper

• uhlan

• yeoman

Verb

dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)

(transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.

Synonym: compel

(transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.

Anagrams

• gadroon

Source: Wiktionary

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Dra*goon", n. Etym: [F. dragon dragon, dragoon, fr. L. draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense standard. See Dragon.]

1. ((Mil.)

Definition: Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

2. A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.

Dra*goon", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]

1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. Price. Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. Macaulay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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