Definitions
marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
Word origin
Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The dory, and the fisherman who rowed it, are part of the maritime heritage that changed America from a group of shore-bound colonies to a nation with ships that ranged the waters of the world.”
“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.”
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