drogue

n 1: a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane

2: a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at

airports) to show the direction of the wind [syn: {windsock},

{sock}, {wind sleeve}]

3: a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents

drifting or maintains the heading into a wind [syn: {sea

anchor}]

4: a parachute used to decelerate a fast-moving object [syn: {drogue

chute}, {drogue parachute}]

rogue

[Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using

character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently

ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)"

screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to

support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most

important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack,

Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games

all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See

also {nethack}.

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