Centaur vs dragoon

Centaur

noun
  • A skillful horseman or horsewoman. 

  • One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception. 

  • A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes. 

  • An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune 

dragoon

noun
  • A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted. 

  • A variety of pigeon. 

  • A carrier of a dragon musket. 

verb
  • To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce. 

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

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