Both Uses of
dragoon
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- A party of leaden dragoons were galloping along one of the shelves, in equipments and uniform of modern cut; and there were some sugar figures, with no strong resemblance to the humanity of any epoch, but less unsatisfactorily representing our own fashions than those of a hundred years ago.†
Chpt 2
- In her bewilderment, she offered him first a wooden dragoon, and next a handful of marbles; neither of which being adapted to his else omnivorous appetite, she hastily held out her whole remaining stock of natural history in gingerbread, and huddled the small customer out of the shop.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
or:
force someone to do something; or subjugate by imposing troops
or:
force someone to do something; or subjugate by imposing troops