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Drogue

noun, verb

Noun

1
A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
"through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road, the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging, escaping into the very centre of the earth."
2
a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly wordnet
3
A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
4
restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind wordnet
5
A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute, or to slow a rapidly-moving vehicle to a speed where it can safely deploy a larger parachute.

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6
a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind wordnet
7
A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
8
a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane wordnet
9
A wind cone.

Verb

1
To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached. transitive
"The old whalesman was not long aboard before getting confirmed in his conjecture that the ship was the same whose boats had harpooned and “drogued” the cachalot', the carcass of which had been encountered by the Catamaran."
2
To use a drogue with. transitive
"Here this type was drogued at 30 m by a^([sic]) 11.85 m parachute while the other types were not drogued."
3
To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object. intransitive
"Four drifters were deployed that drogued at 100 m by a 9.2-m personnel parachute off the island of Kyushu."
4
To transport small loads along the coastline to larger ports, where they can be added to the cargo of larger ships that make longer journeys. transitive
"In the East India Free Trade, the same custom is creeping in, many mercantile houses keeping small brigs constantly in the country droguing, that is, collecting freights for their large ships, which themselves only go to the head ports."

Etymology 1

Uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.

Etymology 2

Uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.

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