drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute
(noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly
windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve, wind cone, drogue
(noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
drogue
(noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drogue (plural drogues)
(whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
(nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
(aeronautics) A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute.
(aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
A wind cone.
• (conical parachute): drag parachute, drag chute, drogue chute, drogue parachute
• drouge, gourde, rogued, rouged
Source: Wiktionary
Drogue, n. (Naut.)
Definition: See Drag, n.,
6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
