dragoon
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
dragoon (plural dragoons)
- (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
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- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
- A carrier of a dragon musket.
- A variety of pigeon.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
soldier
Translations
horse soldier
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carrier of a dragon musket
variety of pigeon
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Further reading
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.
Related terms
Translations
to force someone into doing something; to coerce
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