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dragoon

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Word definitions for dragoon in dictionaries

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 .

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 ...

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.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a three-episode Japanese original video animation .

Usage examples of dragoon.

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.