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▪ I. drogue|drəʊg|
Forms: 8 drug, 9 drugg, drog, dro(u)gue.
[perh. orig. drug, var. of drag n., the form drogue arising through assimilation to drogue, obs. and Sc. form of drug n.1]
1. Whale-fishing. A contrivance attached to the end of a harpoon line to check the progress of a whale when running or sounding.
A simple form consists of a piece of stout board, 12 or 14 inches square; another consists of a small wooden tub, with its concavity in the direction of the whale.
1725Dudley in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 263 Sometimes they will get away after they have been lanced..with Irons in them, and Drugs fastened to them, which are thick Boards about fourteen Inches square. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Drog, a name given in Scotland to a buoy attached to the end of a harpoon line. 1875Kingston South Sea Whaler iii. 79 The first mate was on the point of heaving his own line overboard with a drougue fastened to it.
2. Naut. A hooped canvas bag towed at the stern of a boat to prevent it from broaching to.
1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. (ed. 2) 220 Towing astern a pig of ballast..or canvas bag termed a ‘drogue’ or drag..to hold the boat's stern back, and prevent her being turned broadside to the sea or broaching-to. 1878Boston Mercury 8 June, They are provided with a novel kind of anchor (the drogue). It is a large canvas barrel-shaped bag, attached to fifty fathoms of rope. 1888Scott. Leader 29 Nov. 7 The first breaker lifted the boat on her end, while the second, driving the drogue forward, slacked the rope, when the boat broached to.
3. Aeronaut. A truncated cone of fabric with a hoop at the larger end, used for various purposes: (a) a brake or anchor for aircraft, esp. seaplanes (see quot. 1919); (b) such a cone towed behind an aircraft as a target for gunnery practice; (c) a wind-cone; (d) an auxiliary braking parachute in an ejection-seat mechanism; (e) part of an aircraft-refuelling device (see quots. 1949 and 1966); (f) (see quot. 19621). Also attrib.
1919W. B. Faraday Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms 59 Drogue, a fabric bag arranged to tow with its mouth open, thereby resisting passage through the water. 1931Flight 13 Mar. 234/1 The manufacture of drogue targets. 1932Nuttall's Stand. Dict. Suppl., Drogue, an open fabric bag used to show the direction of the wind at an aerodrome. 1933Flight 29 June 628/1 The target is called a ‘drogue’ and is the same size as the fuselage of a ‘Bulldog’. 1934Exmouth Jrnl. 12 May 8/2 (Advt.), At every air port, you see it—the flyer's drogue. It points the right direction for air traffic to take when starting or landing. 1941[see air-to-air adj. s.v. air n.1 B. III. 1]. 1947Times 30 Aug. 2/1 The drogue steadied his upward rush, and eight seconds later the seat parachute opened. 1949Flight 11 Aug. 177 The tanker aircraft trails a 65ft. fuel hose which terminates in a conical drogue. 1951Engineering 30 Mar. 368/2 To..slow down the seat after ejection, a 2 ft. diameter drogue parachute..was employed. 1951Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. X. 300 The most efficient braking device is the parachute drag brake (also known as ‘drogue chute’ or ‘parabrake’). 1962J. Glenn et al. in Into Orbit 244 Drogue, a small parachute used to stabilize the descent of a spacecraft during re-entry. 1962Times 21 Feb. 10/2 The drogue parachute opened to retard the capsule further and then the main parachute billowed out to lower Colonel Glenn into the sea. 1966New Scientist 20 Jan. 142/1 Apparatus used [for refuelling a helicopter in flight] was of the standard kind—a drogue containing the cup at the end of the tanker's hose and a probe from the nose of the helicopter which is flown into the cup and locked there.
▪ II. drogue, -ry
obs. and Sc. ff. drug, druggery. |