English-Thai Dictionary

dragoon

N ทหารม้า  ta-han-mar

 

dragoon

VT การ ปราบปราม โดย ใช้กำลัง ทหาร  kan-prab-pram-doi-chai-kam-lang-ta-han

 

dragoon into

PHRV กดขี่ข่มเหง  ใช้กำลัง บังคับ  kod-ke-kom-hang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRAGOON

n.[G., L, an ensign bearer; dragon; an appellation given to horsemen, perhaps for their rapidity or fierceness. ] A soldier or musketeer who serves on horseback or on foot, as occasion may require. Their arms are a sword, a musket and a bayonet.

 

DRAGOON

v.t. 1. To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
2. To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers.
3. To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense. ]
The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can de dragooned to nothing.

 

DRAGOONADE

n.The abandoning of a place to the rage of soldiers.

 

DRAGOONED

pp. Abandoned to the violence of soldiers; persecuted; harassed.

 

DRAGOONING

ppr. Abandoning to the rage of soldiers; persecuting; harassing; vexing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DRAGOON

Dra *goon ", n. Etym: [F. dragon dragon, dragoon, fr. L. draco dragon, also, a cohort's standard (with a dragon on it ). The name was given from the sense standard. See Dragon. ]

 

1. ((Mil. )

 

Defn: Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man.

 

2. A variety of pigeon. Clarke. Dragoon bird (Zoöl.), the umbrella bird.

 

DRAGOON

Dra *goon ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragooned; p. pr. & vb. n.Dragooning. ]

 

1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.

 

2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing. Price. Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven. Macaulay.

 

DRAGOONADE

DRAGOONADE Drag `oon *ade ", n.

 

Defn: See Dragonnade.

 

DRAGOONER

DRAGOONER Dra *goon "er, n.

 

Defn: A dragoon. [Obs. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dragoon

dra goon |drəˈgo͞on drəˈɡun | ▶noun a member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army. • historical a mounted infantryman armed with a short rifle or musket. ▶verb [ with obj. ] 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. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

dragoon

dragoon |drəˈguːn | ▶noun a member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army. • historical a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine. ▶verb [ with obj. ] 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 ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dragoon

dragoon noun historical the dragoons charged: cavalryman, mounted soldier; historical knight, chevalier, hussar; archaic cavalier. ▶verb he dragooned his friends into participating: coerce, pressure, press, push; force, compel, impel; hound, harass, nag, harry, badger, goad, pester; browbeat, bludgeon, bully, twist someone's arm, strong-arm; informal railroad.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dragoon

dragoon noun historical the dragoons charged our left flank: cavalryman, mounted soldier, horse soldier, cavalier, knight, chevalier; carabineer, hussar, lancer, cuirassier, sabreur. ▶verb he dragooned his friends into amateur dramatics: coerce, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, use pressure on, put pressure on, constrain, lean on, press, push; force, compel, impel, oblige, put under an obligation, squeeze, hound, harass, nag, harry, badger, goad, drive, prod, pester, browbeat, brainwash, bludgeon, bully, threaten, tyrannize, prevail on, work on, act on, influence, intimidate, twist someone's arm, strong-arm; N. Amer. blackjack; informal bulldoze, railroad, put the screws /squeeze on; Brit. informal bounce; N. Amer. informal hustle, fast-talk.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dragoon

dra goon /drəɡúːn /名詞 C 竜騎兵 〘17 --18世紀ヨーロッパの鎧 （よろい ）を着, 銃を持った騎馬兵 〙.動詞 他動詞 〖～ A into doing 〗A 〈人 〉に強制的に …させる .D -́ Gu à rds ｟英 ｠近衛竜騎馬兵連隊 .