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plural dragoons
(military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted. quotations
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.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, page 602
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -Take all the remarkable people in history,Rattle them off to a popular tune!
1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
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; […].
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
A carrier of a dragon musket. examples
A variety of pigeon. quotations examples
Dragoons were originally bred between a Tumbler and a Horseman: by frequently matching them with the Horseman, they will acquire very great strength and agility
1829, William Clarke, The Boy's Own Book
third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned
(transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce. examples
(transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers. examples