Both Uses
dragoon
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Lonesome Dove
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- It was an old Colt dragoon with a seven-inch barrel and, as he was fond of saying, weighed about as much as the leg he strapped it to.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- Augustus drew his big dragoon Colt and jammed the barrel into Dan's stomach.†
Chpt 74-74
Definitions:
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(1)
(dragoon as in: the dragoon charged) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
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(2)
(dragoon as in: dragoon the worker) coerce or force someone into doing something; or subjugate by imposing troops
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)