See drogue in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "device used in whaling",
"word": "paoro"
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"roman": "plavašta kotva",
"sense": "nautical: type of bag pulled behind a boat",
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"sense": "aeronautics: conical parachute",
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"english": "opening parachute",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "aeronautics: conical parachute",
"word": "apuvarjo"
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"word": "drogue"
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"ref": "1865, Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea, page 363:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1997, Marc Stevenson, Inuit, Whalers, and Cultural Persistence, page 80:",
"text": "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 ).",
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"ref": "2017, Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, Patricia Yaeger, Fueling Culture:",
"text": "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.",
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"(transitive) To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached."
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"ref": "1977, A.D. Kirwan, Jr., G. McNally, M.S. Chang, R. Molinari, “The Effect of Wind and Surface Currents on Drifters”, in Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 5, page 353:",
"text": "Here this type was drogued at 30 m by a^([sic]) 11.85 m parachute while the other types were not drogued.",
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"ref": "1994, Anand Gnanadesikan, Dynamics of Langmuir Circulation in Oceanic Surface Layers, page 306:",
"text": "Moreover, droguing the drifter to some depth will not necessarily help.",
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"ref": "2021, Robert Marsh, Erik van Sebille, Ocean Currents: Physical Drivers in a Changing World, page 8:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1982, A.D. Kirwan, “Tracking the Kuroshio”, in Nimbus 6 Random Access Measurement System Applications Experiments, page 21:",
"text": "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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"ref": "2013, Phil Tomaselli, Air Force Lives: A Guide for Family Historians, page 148:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2015, Ralph Demers, Sand Dollars, page xiii:",
"text": "Take in the mizzen altogether, and put up the storm jib! Aye, and set the sea-anchor droguing!",
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"(intransitive) To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object."
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"ref": "1829, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, page 247:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1857 September 5, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, number 192, page 174:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1899, Frank T. Bullen, “The Derelict”, in The Living Age, volume 220, page 309:",
"text": "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.",
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"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."
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"(transitive) 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."
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