dragoon
(military, weaponry, historical) A type of musket with a short, large-caliber barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon.
(military, by extension) Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
It is, then, sixty years since Edward Waverley, the hero of the following pages, took leave of his family, to join the regiment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commission.
(by extension) A man with a fierce or unrefined manner.
A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.
(Christianity, French politics, historical) To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades.
(by extension) To force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
(by extension, military, historical) To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.