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Docking vs Drogue - What's the difference?

docking | drogue |

As nouns the difference between docking and drogue

is that docking is the process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal while drogue is (whaling) a floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.

As a verb docking

is .

docking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia docking) (en noun)
  • The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
  • The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables
  • (spacecraft) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
  • (colloquial, LGBT) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins, coupling them together by their penises.

    • drogue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
  • * 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun :
    • through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road, the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging, escaping into the very centre of the earth.
  • (nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
  • (aeronautics) A conical basket or fabric construction used variously as a type of brake for some kinds of aircraft, a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
  • A wind cone.

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