dragoon
- n a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
- v compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
- v subjugate by imposing troops
- She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure.
- Halting at the bed side of a soldier critically ill with a mastoid infection, Wintle snapped: "It is an offense for a dragoon to die in bed.
- The officers regard Pip as a traitor to his class and plan to lure or dragoon him back above the salt.