drogue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: Uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.
Inflected forms:
form: drogues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drogues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: droguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drogued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drogued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
pos: noun
gloss: A wind cone.
pos: noun
gloss: To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To use a drogue with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Four drifters were deployed that drogued at 100 m by a 9.2-m personnel parachute off the island of Kyushu.
If a dinghy were to fall from its container, out of sequence, it is still problematic whether the result would be to foul the flap and set up an unstable condition, or whether the result would drogue back and upwards sufficiently to foul the elevator horn balance.
Take in the mizzen altogether, and put up the storm jib! Aye, and set the sea-anchor droguing!
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
The merchants in Auckland send schooners and small brigs to 'drogue' for wheat along the coast; and thus the harvest finds its way to market.
Backwards and forwards across the North Atlantic to Quebec in summer, and to the Gulf Ports in winter, she had been faithfully droguing timber for them for several seasons, her windmill-pump steadily going and the owners' profits accumulating.
Related words: drag parachute
Derived words: drogue anchor
drogueless
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: jarruvarjo
lang: Finnish
word: apuvarjo
lang: Indonesian
word: abaran