A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
A parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly.
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1 The sock electrode rendered external defibrillation impossible, however, even at 360 J.
2 The single-strap closure and inner sock lining allowed for a great fit.
3 A few times, she has seen Kang clutching a girl's unwashed sock .
4 Twice she crossed the room in search of a little missing sock .
5 All day long, the sock does its frantic routine in the gallery.
1 Known him for years. Then he looked at the helipad's windsock .
2 There came a horrible gargling cry; the man's tongue flapped like a windsock .
3 I was dressed in this kind of orange windsock , with a hideous black wig.
4 But their landing strip was dry, the windsock limp.
5 He saw a long strip of white cloth flying from a pole as a windsock .
1 A tattered wind sock was barely visible, flying from a long curving pole.
2 You scoop the air into it like a wind sock and use the roll-top to seal it up.
3 Away from wind socks , control towers, loud speakers, and beams scanning skies.
4 Aldric shattered more windows with his sword, and the force of the wind socked the car harder.
5 "It's been lousy." He looked up at the wind sock .
1 It was air -socks capitalism where we were socializing the losses and privatizing the gains.
1 The app's display shows a series of concentric circles representing something parachutists call a wind cone .
2 Problem is, when you're parachuting, you don't have a good way of knowing when you're in the wind cone .
Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.
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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