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What is a drogue?

What is a drogue? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
  2. (nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
  3. (aeronautics) A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute.
  4. (aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
  5. A wind cone.
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We disengaged the drogue and moved to the right side of our lead's aircraft.
The Viking crew verified the trailing-wire antenna was in and the drogue seated.
A shuttlecock drogue can be trailed behind the boom and used to refuel aircraft equipped with refuelling probes.
Then he loses the drogue and deploys a parafoil-type chute under which he glides the capsule all the way to the ground.
The winch would have to have some kind of rewind capability and a small drogue to ensure it couldn't recoil into the tug's propeller.
Once when they tried to frighten it off, it seized the drogue rope and gave the dinghy a spin.

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