was dragooning
- past progressive of dragoon.
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"Or, as we used to say when I was dragooning thirty years ago, 'the tongue will scarcely meet the buckle,'" responded the colonel.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
