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Meanings of drogue in English
A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.
Usage of drogue in English
1
Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
2
They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
3
They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
4
Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
5
The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
6
As the men started to bail they knew they needed a new drogue, fast.
7
A small drogue parachute was released as planned, followed by the three main parachutes.
8
I brought up Fulgham's near-lethal spin and Kittinger's drogue-chute cravat.
9
When the top dome is off it will drag the drogue out as well.
10
If we do it this way, we may have to kill their drogue riders.
11
Greatest distance of free fall without a drogue chute.
12
It wasn't enough, so they took off the mainsail to use as a drogue, too.
13
The drogue slowed their free-fall speed from two people to that of a single skydiver.
14
At four hundred metres, the drogue chute shot up.
15
That maudite drogue, that coffee, this morning, has made me as thirsty as a panthère.
16
Since we don't, we'll move in column-mefirst, Jake pushing Susannah behind, and you on drogue.
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Drogue through the time