Drogue

/dɹəʊɡ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Although the Inuit were quick to adapt to the use of the whaleboat and new whaling methods, they retained certain elements of their aboriginal technology, and on May 1st all hands aboard the Cemma" spent the day 'making drogues (niutang) for the natives' boats to drogue fish with' ( Ross 1985b : 165 ).

Even before the formal, specialized pursuit of large whales solidified into a seasonal enterprise (which had certainly occurred in the Bay of Biscay by the eleventh century, and quite possibly earlier in Northeastern Asia, or among Pacific or Caribbean island peoples), the spearing or droguing of animals encountered in the course of other activities—like sealing or fishing—would have been relatively common.

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

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

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.

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

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• drogues
• droguing
• drogued

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