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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen v. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" [syn: sandbag , railroad ] subjugate by imposing troops
Wikipedia
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The word dragoon originally meant mounted infantry , who were trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills . However, usage altered over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional cavalry units. In most armies, "dragoons" ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French dragon "carbine, musket," because the guns the soldiers carried "breathed fire" like a dragon (see dragon ). Also see -oon .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted. 2 A carrier of a dragon musket. 3 A variety of pigeon. vb. To force someone into doing something; to coerce.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dragoon \Dra*goon"\ (dr[.a]*g[=oo]n"), n. [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 .] ((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eighty of 400 dragoons were brought down and the rest fled. ▪ He knew about horses from his years as a dragoon . ▪ The Jacobites, with 800 horse and 6300 infantry, easily outnumbered Argyll's 960 dragoons and 2200 foot soldiers. ...
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Every cavalry uniform in the Empire was there: Dragoons, Carabiniers, Hussars, Chasseurs, all forming their long lines of attack behind the Lancers and Cuirassiers.
Further back were the Carabiniers in their dazzling white uniforms, and squadrons of green Dragoons and troops of plumed Hussars.
Sharpe looked behind again and saw the closest Dragoons were now just fifty yards away.
The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades.
The rugged part of the Dragoons called Cochise Stronghold came by the name honestly.
A large number of the countryfolk, however, more curious or less devout than the citizens, gathered round our regiment to see the men who had beaten off the dragoons.
Nearer and nearer in disorderly crowds came the Uhlans and the French dragoons pursuing them.
First there was his encounter with Lord Strongbow and his mutagenically altered Imperial Dragoons, with their scale-ringed, snakish eyes.
At Resaca the American dragoons under Captain May charged straight upon a Mexican battery, killing the gunners and capturing the Mexican general La Vega just as he was about to apply a match to one of the pieces.
French Dragoons, unable to resist using the captured rifles, had proved inept with the unfamiliar weapons.
Two rifles fired, more shot from upstairs, then the northern window was darkened as French Dragoons, who had charged about the blind western angle of the house, filled the frame.
A patch of dust drifted from a field where the shot had plummeted, then he and Ahmed followed the dragoons into the gully and the leaves hid them from the invisible watchers high above.
Drawn by lowing, steaming oxen on log sledges, or huge, creaking wains, bombards captured from the French Crusaders were arriving at the average rate of three per day, each escorted by mounted artillerists and dragoons.
Drawn by lowing, steaming oxen on log sledges, or huge, creaking, wains, bombards captured from the French Crusaders were arriving at the average rate of three per day, each escorted by mounted artillerists and dragoons.
A squadron of the 5th Lancers and of the 5th Dragoon Guards, under Colonel Gore of the latter regiment, had prowled round the base of the hill, and in the fading light they charged through and through the retreating Boers, killing several, and making from twenty to thirty prisoners.