Crossword-Solution: DROGUE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drogue | n. | See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DROGUE | anagram | GOURDE, ROGUED, ROUGED |
We have 16 clues for the answer “DROGUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BUOY at end of harpoon line | 1 answer |
| Device to keep a ship from drifting | 1 answer |
| Jet-slowing parachute | 1 answer |
| Parachute to reduce speed | 1 answer |
| Parachute used to slow down a race car | 1 answer |
| Seaplane's anchor | 1 answer |
| Small parachute | 1 answer |
| Sea anchor | 3 answers |
| Parachute | 7 answers |
| A SMALL PARACHUTE OR ARTICULATED FLAP TO REDUCE THE SPEED OF AN AIRCRAFT | 10 answers |
| A FUNNEL-SHAPED DEVICE TOWED AS A TARGET BY AN AIRPLANE | 11 answers |
| A PARACHUTE USED TO DECELERATE AN OBJECT THAT IS MOVING RAPIDLY | 11 answers |
| BUOY, type of | 14 answers |
| CONE ___ | 15 answers |
| Anchor | 50 answers |
| Buoy | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DROGUE (5)
That maudite drogue, that coffee, this morning, has made me as thirsty as a panthère." Phoeby, glancing across at Mrs.
She's the ship they'd use; she's got steam winches and derricks 'nough to discharge the Ark, and stowage room to hold the cargo down to the last flea, but she's no good for more than eight knots; she steams like as if she'd a drogue behind her, because why?--she's got beam engines--she's that old, she's got beam engines in her.
This your thought procedeth not of loue: for hee that thincketh to sustain himselfe with venim sugred with that drogue, in the ende he seeth himselfe so desperately impoysoned, as onely death is the remedie for suche disease: a louer truly may be called the slaue of a tyrant most violent, cruell, and bloudie that may be found, whose yoke once put on, can not be put of, but with painful sorrowe and vnspeakeable displeasure.
Soon he signaled us that he was nearly out of line, and two or three minutes after, he bent on his "drogue" (a square piece of plank with a rope tail spliced into its center, and considered to hinder a whale's progress at least as much as four boats) and let go the end.
The first mate, in his desire to go to the rescue of his shipmates, was on the point of heaving his own line overboard with a drogue fastened to it, when the whale he had struck, lifting up its huge flukes, sounded, nearly dragging him overboard as he let out the line.
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Appears in: Crossroads, Custom, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1986–2003).