Dragoon
Dragoon (drȧ*gon") , noun
[French dragon dragon, dragoon, from Latin draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it). The name was given from the sense standard. See Dragon.]
1.
((Military) 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
Collocations (1)
Dragoon bird (Zoology) , the umbrella bird.
Dragoon , transitive verb
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.
Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.