Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dragoon.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A dragoon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A dragoon.
Examples
“Yon dragooner is quite certain that you are not here, and we can safely take advantage of his opinion.”
“( 'Squire Correspondence,' April 3, 1643), it will be seen that a dragooner was worth twenty pieces, while a charger could not be obtained under sixty.”
“He was plaguy hot at first, but he soon came round, and he hath promised that if I pay for the hire of a dragooner as long as the war shall last I shall have back the piebald.”
“Pierce, the dragooner of Kansas, writes a letter in favor of free elections, and the maligners of New England propose a Connecticut”
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
“Kettledrummle was taen near us -- for Andrew Wilson's naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up.”
“Andrew Wilson’s naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up. —”
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