drogue

A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.

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.

A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.

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.

A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.

A wind cone.

To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.

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 ).

To use a drogue with.

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.

To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.

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.

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.

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.