different between dragoon vs bulldoze

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dragon. Doublet of Draco and dragon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????u?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Noun

dragoon (plural dragoons)

1. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
   • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience

     If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
     Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
     Take all the remarkable people in history,
     Rattle them off to a popular tune!

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

2. A carrier of a dragon musket.
3. A variety of pigeon.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)

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Further reading

• dragoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)

1. (transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.

   Synonym: compel

2. (transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.

Related terms

• dragooner

Translations

Anagrams

• gadroon

English

Etymology

From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull +? dose.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?ldo?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?ld??z/
• Hyphenation: bull?doze

Verb

bulldoze (third-person singular simple present bulldozes, present participle bulldozing, simple past and past participle bulldozed)

1. To destroy with a bulldozer.

   He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
2. (Britain) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".

   He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.

3. (Britain) To push through forcefully.

   • For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.

4. To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 469]:

     There stood a low yellow compact machine which apparently did the digging and bull-dozed back the earth.

   Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.

5. (Britain) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.

   That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.

6. (US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.

Translations

References

Kelly, John. "What in the Word?! The racist roots of 'bulldozer'". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 October 2018.

Further reading

• bulldoze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia