droguing

Verb

drogue (third-person singular simple present drogues, present participle droguing, simple past and past participle drogued)

1. (transitive) To harpoon or spear (a whale) with a weapon that has a drogue attached.
   • The old whalesman was not long aboard before getting confirmed in his conjecture that the ship was the same whose boats had harpooned and “drogued” the cachalot', the carcass of which had been encountered by the Catamaran.1865, Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea, page 363
2. (transitive) To use a drogue with.
   • Here this type was drogued at 30 m by a^([sic]) 11.85 m parachute while the other types were not drogued.1977, A.D. Kirwan, Jr.; G. McNally; M.S. Chang; R. Molinari, “The Effect of Wind and Surface Currents on Drifters”, in Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 5, page 353
3. (intransitive) To act as a drogue, slowing down and stabilizing a drifting object.
   • Four drifters were deployed that drogued at 100 m by a 9.2-m personnel parachute off the island of Kyushu.1982, A.D. Kirwan, “Tracking the Kuroshio”, in Nimbus 6 Random Access Measurement System Applications Experiments, page 21
4. (transitive) To transport small loads along the coastline to larger ports, where they can be added to the cargo of larger ships that make longer journeys.
   • In the East India Free Trade, the same custom is creeping in, many mercantile houses keeping small brigs constantly in the country droguing, that is, collecting freights for their large ships, which themselves only go to the head ports.1829, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, page 247

See all 9 meanings of drogue