Dory

//ˈdɔːɹi// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a bright yellow or golden color. obsolete
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given names Dorothy or Doris. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

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

  3. 3
    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.

    "The basic weapon of the hoplite was the dory, a wooden-shaft spear six to nine feet long with a metal point at each end."

  4. 4
    marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters wordnet
  5. 5
    pike-like freshwater perches wordnet
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  1. 6
    a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.

Etymology 3

From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.

Etymology 4

PIE word *dóru Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru).

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