dory
Meanings
Plural: dorata, dories
Noun
- a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
- pike-like freshwater perches
- marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
- A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
- Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
- 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.
Adj
- Of a bright yellow or golden color.
Origin / Etymology
Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
Scrabble Score: 8
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