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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Dragoon

/(drȧ*go͞on")/ · Dra·goon · IPA /dɹəˈɡun/
01 n. Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.
  1. 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. 2.
    A variety of pigeon.
Phrases & compounds
Dragoon bird — the umbrella bird.
02 v. t. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
imp. & p. p. Dragooned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragooning
  1. 1.
    To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
  2. 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.” — Macaulay.