Dory

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːri

Attested in American English of 1709 CE; assumed to be related to Central of Western Indian language, perhaps Miskito.

Full definition of dory

Noun

1. (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
• 1907, Robert Chambers, The Younger Set Chapter 9/2, He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; …
• 27 November 2013, John Grotzinger, The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36], 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.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːri

From Old French doree, past participle of dorer ("to gild"), from Latin deauratus.

Noun

1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
2. (obscure, cooking) A dish that has been coated or glazed with "almond milk".

Adjective

1. (obscure) Of a bright yellow or golden color.
2. (obscure, cooking) Coated or glazed with "almond milk".

Pronunciation

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Borrowing from grc δόρυ.

Alternative form

• doru

Noun

1. 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 not thrown, but thrust at opponents with one hand.

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