"drogueless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: drogue + -less Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|drogue|less}} drogue + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} drogueless (not comparable)
  1. Not equipped with a drogue. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-drogueless-en-adj-NScKgY1P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -less

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          "ref": "1980, Ecology of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, page 2972",
          "text": "It appears that some buoys, in the latter part of their drift, may have been drogueless based on the results of certain buoys .",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Journal of Physical Oceanography - Volume 19, page 299",
          "text": "Attempts to correct the movement of drifters (of the same design as those discussed here) for windage have not been successful, either overestimating the downward movement of drogueless drifters ( Kirwan et al. 1978) , or underestimating the downwind movement of drifters with small drogues (McNally and White 1985) .",
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          "ref": "1996 April 15, James E. Overland, Phyllis J. Stabeno, Sigrid Salo, “Direct evidence for northward flow on the northwestern Bering Sea shelf”, in Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 101",
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