What does "dragoon" mean?
Dragoon: A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.
Additional senses
- 2.To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
- 3.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. Macaulay.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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