All 5 Uses of
dragoon
in
Bleak House
- You're an independent dragoon, too!†
Chpt 34-36 *
- If George the vagabond dragoon had any hand in it, he was only an accomplice, and was set on.†
Chpt 52-54
- There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.†
Chpt 55-57
- How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you an idle dragooning chap who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline?†
Chpt 55-57
- I have served as a dragoon in my day, and a comrade of mine that I was once rather partial to was, if I don't deceive myself, a brother of yours.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(dragoon) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
or:
force someone to do something; or subjugate by imposing troops