dragoon
-noun
1. a member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army.
2. historical: a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine.
-verb [ with obj. ]
3. coerce (someone) into doing something: she had been dragooned into helping with the housework.
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire): from French dragon ‘dragon’.
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