dragoon

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: sandbagrailroad

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

Verb (2)

  1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means“They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone”Synonyms: sandbagrailroad
  2. subjugate by imposing troops
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.]

1.((Mil.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. [1913 Webster]

2.A variety of pigeon. --Clarke. [1913 Webster]

Dragoon bird (Zool.), the umbrella bird. [1913 Webster]

Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning.]

1.To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. [1913 Webster]

2.To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. [1913 Webster]

The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.— Price.[1913 Webster]
Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

DRAGOON

<language> A distributed, concurrent, object-oriented Ada-based language developed in the Esprit DRAGON project by Colin Atkinson at Imperial College in 1989 (Now at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for embeddable systems and is presently implemented as an Ada preprocessor.

["Object-Oriented Reuse, Concurrency and Distribution: An Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN 0-2015-6-5277].

(1999-11-22)

The Devil's Dictionary

DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.
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