DRAGOON

Dragoon is the traditional name for a soldier trained to fight on foot but who transports himself on horseback, in use especially during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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(v. t.)
To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
  

(v. t.)
To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
  

(n.)
Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
  

(n.)
A variety of pigeon.
  

<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)

Noun
1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
(hypernym) cavalryman, trooper
Verb
1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
(synonym) sandbag, railroad
(hypernym) coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force
2. subjugate by imposing troops
(hypernym) subjugate, subject