drogue

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See also: drogué

English

Etymology

Uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɹəʊɡ/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Noun

drogue (plural drogues)

  1. (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
    • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
      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.
  2. (nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
  3. (aeronautics) 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.
  4. (aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
  5. A wind cone.

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Derived terms

Translations

wind cone — see windsock

Verb

drogue (third-person singular simple present drogues, present participle droguing, simple past and past participle drogued)

  1. (transitive) To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.
    • 1865, Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea, page 363:
      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.
    • 1997, Marc Stevenson, Inuit, Whalers, and Cultural Persistence, page 80:
      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 ).
    • 2017, Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, Patricia Yaeger, Fueling Culture:
      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.
  2. (transitive) To use a drogue with.
    • 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:
      Here this type was drogued at 30 m by a 11.85 m parachute while the other types were not drogued.
    • 1994, Anand Gnanadesikan, Dynamics of Langmuir Circulation in Oceanic Surface Layers, page 306:
      Moreover, droguing the drifter to some depth will not necessarily help.
    • 2021, Robert Marsh, Erik van Sebille, Ocean Currents: Physical Drivers in a Changing World, page 8:
      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.
  3. (intransitive) To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.
    • 1982, A.D. Kirwan, “Tracking the Kuroshio”, in Nimbus 6 Random Access Measurement System Applications Experiments, page 21:
      Four drifters were deployed that drogued at 100 m by a 9.2-m personnel parachute off the island of Kyushu.
    • 2013, Phil Tomaselli, Air Force Lives: A Guide for Family Historians, page 148:
      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.
    • 2015, Ralph Demers, Sand Dollars, page xiii:
      Take in the mizzen altogether, and put up the storm jib! Aye, and set the sea-anchor droguing!
  4. (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.
    • 1829, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, page 247:
      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.
    • 1857 September 5, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, number 192, page 174:
      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.
    • 1899, Frank T. Bullen, “The Derelict”, in The Living Age, volume 220, page 309:
      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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French

Etymology

First attested in Middle French circa 1462, probably from Middle Dutch droge (modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

  1. drug

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Danish: droge
  • → German: Droge
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: droge
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: droge

Further reading

Galician

Verb

drogue

  1. inflection of drogar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle French

Etymology

Middle Dutch droge (modern Dutch droog).

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

  1. drug
    • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 12:
      Il falloit entre autres choses qu’il contrefist pour un temps le mort, pour avoir mangé de certaine drogue : après avoir avallé le pain qu’on feignoit estre cette drogue, il commença tantost à trembler et branler, comme s’il eust esté estourdy
      He had to, among other things, fight against death. He ate certain drugs; after having consumed the bread that they were pretending was this drug, he started to tremble and shake as if he had been stunned.

Descendants

Norman

Etymology

Either via French (or Middle French) drogue, or borrowed directly from Middle Dutch droge.

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

  1. (Jersey) drug

Derived terms

Portuguese

Verb

drogue

  1. inflection of drogar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

drogue

  1. inflection of drogar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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