Dory

Quick meaning: Dory is a noun meaning (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

Meaning

(nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

More Meanings

1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
2. A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
3. (obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.

Example Sentences

A DIATREE FOR DINNER. […] The ſeconde Courſe. […] Dorye

Pan-fried fish. Barramundi, bream, flounder, garfish, John Dory, snapper and Silver Dory are suitable for this recipe.

From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea.

John Wesley Powell […] the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.

Word Forms

• dories
• dorata
• doru

Synonyms for dory

Depending on context, synonyms include dinghy, rowboat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dinghy, rowboat, hunky, doru, doryman, doryline.

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