n. [ Cf. Drag. ] A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [ Written also droger. ] Ham. Nar. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 1. (Naut.) See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. a small parachute dragged behind a vehicle as a means of stabilizing it, or deployed first so as to assist opening of a larger parachute. [ PJC ]
3. a funnel-shaped attachment at the end of a hose suspended from a tanker airplane in flight, to which the probe of another airplane may connect, so as to complete a connecting hose line through which fuel may be transferred from the tanker to the following airplane. It is used for in-flight refueling. [ PJC ]
n. [ F. See Direct. ] A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖Droit d'aubaine. See under Aubaine. -- Droits of the Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in ignorance of hostilities existing, or from such ships as are taken by noncommissioned captors; also, the proceeds of wrecks, and derelict property at sea. The droits of admiralty are now paid into the Exchequer for the public benefit. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (O. Eng. Law) relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions. [ Obs. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
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