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Dory  n.  (pl. dories)  A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.






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"Dory" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'preserves' seemed to him very much like going out and murdering the barn-door fowl. His shooting was of the woodcock, the wild-duck, and the various marsh-birds that frequent the coast of New England.... Nor would he unmoor his dory with his 'bob and line and sinker,' for a haul of cod or hake or haddock, without having Ovid, or Agricola, or Pharsalia, in the pocket of his old gray overcoat, for the 'still and ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 • Various

... bill was paid; so were the other bills. Ken, on his way out from Asquam, stopped with a sudden light in his dogged face and turned back. He sought out the harbor-master, who was engaged in painting a dory ...
— The Happy Venture • Edith Ballinger Price

... young men started for the beach. At Tom's suggestion they got a little dory from the boathouse and rowed out to the clipper. The wind had shifted to the southeast, but still there was not enough of a sea to give them any trouble; and in a few minutes they were under the bows of The Southern Cross. Dan hailed a seaman who was leaning over ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold

... rich hues of the sunset, the long dark lines of the wharves, and the tall masts of the ships sleeping at their moorings were reflected with many a quaint curve and curious involution. Boats of every kind, the broad-bottomed dory, the sharp-bowed flat, the trim keel-boat, the long low whaler, with their jolly companies, dotted the placid surface, while here and there a noisy steam launch saucily puffed its way along, the incessant throb of its engine giving warning of its approach. Far up the harbour at their moorings ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley

... late October, a sudden squall drove landward, capsizing the dory in which my mother was returning from a visit to old friends on an island off the Rockport coast. She was in sight of home when that furious gust of wind and rain swept across her path. The next morning the little waves rippled musically against the beach whither they had borne my ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter



Words linked to "Dory" :   Zeus faber, thwart, Zeidae, Stizostedion vitreum, acanthopterygian, rowboat, cross thwart, small boat, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, hunky-dory, jack salmon, blue walleye, blue pikeperch, pin, peg, wherry, rowing boat, rowlock, blue pickerel, thole, blue pike, family Zeidae, walleyed pike



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