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† draˈgooner Obs.
Also 7 dragonier, -goner, -goneer, -gooneer.
[f. dragoon n. 1, or immediately from French. Cf. Ger. dragoner, in 17th c. also tragoner, draguner.
In German, the word was already in regular use in the Thirty Years War, and in 1617 was ridiculed as a ‘fremdwort’ or foreign word (Kluge). This, with the variant 17th c. English forms, and the fact that it was not a natural Eng. formation from dragoon, imply for the original a F. dragonnier ‘soldier armed with a dragoon or harquebus’, although this is not recorded in the dictionaries. OF. had dragonier in the sense ‘standard-bearer’, = med.L. dracōnārius.]
1. = dragoon n. 2.
1639Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) IV. 27 The dragoneers..are commanded by one Colonell Stafford. 1642Decl. Lords & Com., For Rais. Forces 22 Dec. 7 That the Dragooners be put into Companies, And that one hundred and twelve be allotted to a Company. c1642Twyne in Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 68 The kynges horsemen or troopers and dragoners. 1643Sober Sadnes 35 They had a power could reach him; and this was the power of the Dragooneers. 1644–7Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. 2 The Emperick-Divines of the Assembly, those Spirituall Dragooners, thumbe it accordingly. 1672T. Venn Mil. & Mar. Discip. iii. 7 Five several kinds of men at Arms for the Horse Service, Lanciers, Cuirasiers, Harquebuziers, Carabiniers, Dragoniers. 1705S. Whately in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 168 To raise the Dragooners and 5th men.
2. A horse ridden by a dragoon.
1642Ord. & Declar. Lords & Com. 29 Nov. 11 Horses for service in the Field, Dragooners and Draught-Horses.
3. [f. dragoon v.] One who dragoons or takes part in a dragonnade; a rigid persecutor.
1688Reasons for Establ. Standing Army, in 5th Coll. Papers Junct. Affairs 14 The Dragooners have made more Converts than all the Bishops and Clergy of France. 1826Praed Poems (1865) I. 263 Who for long years had been a great dragooner. |