Definitions
1.NounSynonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
Originally , a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
2.NounSynonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).
3.NounOriginally , a soldier armed with a dragoon musket (noun sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
4.NounA man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon (noun sense 1.2).
5.NounA variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
6.VerbTo subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons (noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).
7.VerbChiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
8.VerbChiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
9.VerbTo cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.