Crossword clues for drogue
drogue
- Device to keep a ship from drifting
- A funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane
- A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast
- Used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
- Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel
- Prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind
The Collaborative International Dictionary
parachute \par"a*chute\, v. i. TO descend to th ground from an airplane or other high place using a parachute; as, when the plane stalled, he parachuted safely to the ground.
golden parachute a generous set of financial benefits, including severance pay, provided by contract to a high-level corporate employee in the event s/he is dismissed or his/her job is lost in a corporate takeover or merger; also, the contract providing for such benefits.
drogue parachute a small parachute that is first released and opened in order to more reliably deploy a larger parachute. Also called drogue.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context whaling English) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. 2 (context nautical English) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broach to. 3 (context aeronautics English) A conical basket or fabric construction used variously as a type of brake for some kinds of aircraft, a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling. 4 A wind cone.
WordNet
n. a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane
a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind [syn: windsock, sock, air sock, wind sleeve, wind cone]
restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind [syn: sea anchor]
a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly [syn: drogue chute, drogue parachute]
Wikipedia
A drogue (also known as a storm drogue) is a device external to a boat, attached to the stern and used to slow the boat down in a storm and to keep the hull perpendicular to the waves. The boat will not speed excessively down the slope of a wave and crash into the next one nor will it broach. By slowing the vessel in heavy weather, the drogue can make it easier to control. A drogue is usually constructed to provide substantial resistance when dragged through the water, and is trailed behind the vessel on a long line. A properly functioning drogue should also prevent pitchpoling.
Usage examples of "drogue".
Cesca explained how they intended to use water tankers to distribute wentals in a simultaneous attack against drogue gas giants.
With enough of these, we can crack open drogue warglobes like rotten eggs.
With part of his mind connected to the soul of the ship, he followed the fading wakes of the drogue vessels back to their origin.
Kotto and Denn cheered in triumph, then yelled in panic as they scrambled to avoid the out-of-control drogue ships.
Golgen, his skymine falling apart all around him in the drogue attack.
And another chance in a million that anyone could escape drogue pursuit even if the systems all still worked.
The lab shuttle raced off in pursuit, but the drogue derelict was out of control, tumbling and wheeling like a Chinese fireworks display.
I realized for the first time there were to be two more: Drogue and Ren.
We were both to the right of Drogue and Clement in the center, wearing bright gold robes trimmed with wide bands of silver.
A very mild mixture of glory-seeds and some harmless herbs, Drogue had told me shortly before the ceremony.
Drogue bowed, kneel when Drogue kneeled, or sit, huddled, in contemplative silence when Clement recited the long meditative invocation.
If there were questions about the Diligent or her supposedly illicit purpose, Drogue would hear of them, eventually.
His Serene Supremacy the Chairman of the Board of Syndics of Drogue, while the latter sat at meat in his high chamber.
His Serene Supremacy, the Chairman of Drogue, who keeps the peace of The River.
The conclusion came to Jon-Joras, not for the first time, that the exercise of civil rights in the City-State of Drogue left a good deal to be desired.