Dragoon /(drȧ*go͡on")/

Dra·goon

Dragoon

n.
  1. Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. (Mil.)
  2. A variety of pigeon.

Phrases & Compounds
Dragoon bird
the umbrella bird.

Dragoon

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.
  2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
    The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.
    — Price.
    Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.