noun
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A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
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A carrier of a dragon musket.
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A variety of pigeon.
verb
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To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.
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To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.
Examples of dragoon in a Sentence
The dragoon was about to repeat his blow.
These two regiments amalgamated in 1959 to form 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.
Among these were the Tank Corp, Rn submarines, the Australian Light Horse, the Labor Corps, and the Dragoon Guards.
Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin, he was gazetted captain in the 7th Cathcart's Horse (now 6th Dragoon Guards) in 1737, and three years later was transferred to Bragg's regiment of foot (Gloucestershire Regiment) as lieutenant-colonel; immediately afterwards the regiment sailed for active service on the Rhine, and although it was not present at the battle of Dettingen, its lieutenant-colonel was made brevet colonel and aide-de-camp to the king.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards are Scotland 's only Regiment of Cavalry.
Among these were the Tank Corp, RN submarines, the Australian Light Horse, the Labor Corps, and the Dragoon Guards.
Panzer Dragoon Orta was the latest project of the Cxbx programmers.
He entered a dragoon regiment in 1704 and rose to the rank of captain; then, exchanging the military service for diplomacy, he was attached to the suite of Vice-Chancellor Shafirov.
The attack was impeded at first by obstacles of ground, but in the melee the weight of the British troopers gradually broke up the enemy, and the charge of the 4th Dragoon Guards, delivered against the flank of the Russian mass, was decisive.
For thirteen days a cannonade of the town was continued without effect; and on the 20th of April, news having come in from the advanced guard at Hamad of large reinforcements to the besieged, General Stewart was compelled to retreat; and a dragoon was despatched to Lieutenant-colonel Macleod, commanding at Hamad, with orders to fall back.
The French dragoon officer was hopping with one foot on the ground, the other being caught in the stirrup.
In 1888 he obtained a commission in the 1st Royal Dragoon Guards.
Frau Gliick finally rid herself of the girl by marrying her to a Swedish dragoon called Johan.
One of the officers of the dragoon regiment, finding a Latin sentence inscribed on a wall, discovered the condition of the very awkward recruit.
He was a captain in the 2nd regiment of Prussian Dragoon Guards when he was elected domn or prince of Rumania on the 10th of April 1866, after the compulsory abdication of Prince Alexander John Cuza.
He saw the frightened and then infuriated face of the dragoon who dealt the blow, the look of silent, timid reproach that boy in the fur-lined coat had turned upon him.
In 1811, along with the 3rd Dragoon Guards, the 4th Light Dragoons fought a notable cavalry action at Usagre, and in 1812 Lord Edward Somerset was engaged in the great charge of Le Marchant's heavy cavalry at Salamanca.
The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German accent.
Rostov smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money.