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Meanings of sea anchor in English

Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.

Synonyms
Examples for "drogue"
Examples for "drogue"
1
Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
The Quantum Jump
2
They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
The Guardian
3
They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
Wired
4
Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
The Pariah
5
The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
Wired
Usage of sea anchor in English
1
Another gang fell to work; pulling in the sea anchor.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
2
Your sea anchor saved you, that and good seamanship.
The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome ...
3
Bettik rigged a sort of sea anchor using the microtent and the climbing rope, she said.
The Hyperion Cantos
4
On Thursday night the waves came crashing in and we reluctantly put the sea anchor out.
The Irish Times
5
Why don't you get that hundred-meter section of line you used as a sea anchor on Mare Infinitus?
The Hyperion Cantos
6
Trying to halt our backwards progress we put out the sea anchor and rested for a few hours.
The Irish Times
7
In the open ocean, with no sea anchor, he could readily flip during even a moderate tropical storm.
The Guardian
8
The sea anchor had worked, and the trawler was now riding with the tide, her bow into the wind.
Cry for the strangers
9
Obviously they had retrieved their " sea anchor."
The Hyperion Cantos
10
Three large Pax Sea Navy frigates are at sea anchor off the platform, and two of them are combat submersibles.
The Hyperion Cantos
11
The gig and jolly-boat were towing astern; the rest were well away by now, drifting to a canvas sea anchor.
Relentless Pursuit
12
He threw the primitive sea anchor overboard, hoping the current would catch it with enough strength to pull the trawler around.
Cry for the strangers
13
It was always a bad moment when the boats were cut free to drift on a sea anchor until recovered by the victors.
Colors Aloft!
14
Alvarenga strung 50 buoys from the boat as a makeshift " sea anchor" that floated on the surface, providing drag and stability.
The Guardian
15
In this emergency White constructed a sea anchor, by means of which he hoped to prolong their struggle for at least a few hours.
Under the Great Bear
16
Sea anchors were hastily thrown overside, but still the ship approached the beach.
The Players