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Seaplane's anchor
Answer for the clue "Seaplane's anchor ", 6 letters:
drogue
Alternative clues for the word drogue
- A parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly
- A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast
- Parachute initially deployed by villain
- Used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
- Kind of parachute
- Prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind
- Small parachute
- Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel
Word definitions for drogue in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.