Dragoon

Quick meaning: Dragoon is a noun meaning (by extension) A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).

Meaning

(by extension) A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).

More Meanings

1. A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
2. Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
3. To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.
4. Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
5. Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
6. (Christianity, French politics, historical) To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons (noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).

Example Sentences

The French persecution more inhuman than ever. The Protestants in Savoy successfully resist the French dragoons sent to murder them.

I have served as a Dragoon in my day; and a comrade of mine that I was once rather partial to, was, if I don't deceive myself, a brother of yours.

A German Dragoon as I thought him, gave me a rude Blovv vvith the Stock of his Piece on the Side of my Head, and vvas juſt going to repeat it, vvhen one of my Men ſhot him dead.

[Y]oung Emir-Hamza-mirza Abbas his eldeſt on (inheriting his Uncles vertue as vvell as name) vvith a ſtrong body of Horſe and Dragoons confronting the Baſſa near to Sultany gave him ſuch a bruſh that the Turk retreated as far back as Van: […]

Word Forms

• dragoons
• dragooning
• dragooned

Synonyms for dragoon

Depending on context, synonyms include dragon, compel, railroad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include railroad, drungar, drillmaster, lancer, cavalryman, plunger.

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