Droger, Drogher

( Naut.) A cargo-boat for transporting heavy burdens; a large kind of lighter. Drogheda, ( droh'he - da,) a sea-port town of Leinster, in the cos. of Meath and Louth, Ireland, on the Boyne River, abt. 4 m. from its mouth. It has an elegant Roman Catholic cathedral, and many other fine public buildings. Manf. Linen and cotton goods, leather, machinery, ship-building, .