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Drogue   /droʊg/   Listen
Drogue

noun
1.
A funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane.
2.
A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.  Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock.
3.
Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.  Synonym: sea anchor.
4.
A parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly.  Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute.



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"Drogue" Quotes from Famous Books



... and lifted into the air! The next instant down it came, dashed into fragments, while those in it were sent flying in all directions. The first mate, in his desire to go to the rescue of his shipmates, was on the point of heaving his own line overboard with a drogue fastened to it, when the whale he had struck, lifting up its huge flukes, sounded, nearly dragging him overboard as he let out the line. The men were backing out of its way, when suddenly it slewed round its tail. The men, well knowing their danger, made every effort ...
— The South Sea Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... to be a' my warnin', Death? I'm fourscore year an' four, Yet niver a drogue has crossed my lips Nor a doctor ...
— The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots • David Rorie


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