dragoon
/dr goon/ • noun 1 a member of any of several British cavalry regiments. 2 historical a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine. • verb coerce into doing something. — ORIGIN originally denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire: from French dragon ‘dragon’.
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