Drogue

Quick meaning: Drogue is a noun meaning (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.

Meaning

(whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
2. (aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
3. A wind cone.
4. (transitive) To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.
5. (transitive) To use a drogue with.
6. (intransitive) To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.
7. (aeronautics) 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.

Example Sentences

Moreover, droguing the drifter to some depth will not necessarily help.

Here this type was drogued at 30 m by a^([sic]) 11.85 m parachute while the other types were not drogued.

Four drifters were deployed that drogued at 100 m by a 9.2-m personnel parachute off the island of Kyushu.

These surface buoys are drogued to drift with the currents at a target depth around 15 m (Fig. 1.3A), to avoid drifting with currents very close to the surface.

Word Forms

• drogues
• droguing
• drogued

Synonyms for drogue

Depending on context, synonyms include sock, windsock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include windsock, sock, barge, float, drug, drugs.

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