dragoon

dragoon
    n 1: a member of a European military unit formerly composed of
         heavily armed cavalrymen
    v 1: compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They
         sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone" [syn:
         {dragoon}, {sandbag}, {railroad}]
    2: subjugate by imposing troops
    

Dragoon \Dra*goon"\ (dr[.a]*g[=oo]n"), n. [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.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to
      serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted
      soldier; a cavalry man.
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   2. A variety of pigeon. --Clarke.
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   {Dragoon bird} (Zool.), the umbrella bird.
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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.
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   2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
      persecute.
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            The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they
            can be dragooned to nothing.          --Price.
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            Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying
            to dragoon his subjects to heaven.    --Macaulay.
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DRAGOON, n.  A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal
measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on
horseback.
    

DRAGOON

   <language> A {distributed}, {concurrent}, {object-oriented}
   {Ada}-based language developed in the {Esprit} {DRAGON}
   project by Colin Atkinson at {Imperial College} in 1989 (Now
   at University of Houston, Clear Lake).  DRAGOON supports
   object-oriented programming for {embeddable systems} and is
   presently implemented as an Ada {preprocessor}.

   ["Object-Oriented Reuse, Concurrency and Distribution: An
   Ada-Based Approach", C. Atkinson, A-W 1991, ISBN
   0-2015-6-5277].

   (1999-11-22)
    

34 Moby Thesaurus words for "dragoon":
      blackjack, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, browbeat, bulldoze,
      bully, bullyrag, cavalryman, coerce, cossack, cow, cuirassier,
      demoralize, harass, heavy dragoon, hector, hijack, huff, hussar,
      intimidate, lance, lancer, ruffle, shanghai, spahi, steamroller,
      strong-arm, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, trooper,
      uhlan, use violence