meaning of dragoons

1. 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.
3. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
4. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.
5. DRAGOON 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].
6. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

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