dragoon

Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.

A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon.

A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.

(historical) Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”).

Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.

(historical) To 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 in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).

(historical) To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.