Both Uses
dragoon
in
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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- You remember Dr. Bulkeley told us he used to be a captain of the dragoons in Barbados.†
p. 157.7 *
- Why, he was a gentleman, an officer of the King's Dragoons, a knight!†
p. 159.2
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)