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Dory

noun

(pl. dories)

A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled. Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat.

Pike-like freshwater perches. Synonyms: jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike.

Marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters.

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"Dory" Quotes from Famous Books

... the harbour at Belize thirteen seconds behind the yacht that Anabela and Fergus were on. They started for the shore in a dory just as my skiff was lowered over the side. I tried to order my sailormen to row faster, but the sounds died in my larynx before they came to the light. Then I thought of old Iquito's medicine, and I got out his bottle and took ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... water, straining their cordage in their tense efforts to reach the stake boats. Mandeville indiscriminately distributed itself on piers, large and small, bath-house tops, trees, and craft of all kinds, from pirogue, dory, and pine-raft to pretentious cat-boat and shell-schooner. Mandeville cheered and strained its eyes after all the boats, but chiefly was its attention directed to ...

— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar

... quick-witted, sure-footed, firm-handed girl from her earliest childhood, and a great lover of the sea in all its changing phases. Often instead of playing games on land with her mates she would beguile some old fisherman to take her out in his fishing dory, and eagerly help him make his hauls, and by the time she was fourteen years old she was an expert in handling the oars, and as tireless a swimmer as could be found in ...

— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... gives the experience of "Big Brother" Dave Allen at the Academy; Roy Allen in his dory, the Sunbeam, in Boston Harbor; Ruth Atherton as teacher, and Beth Allen as pupil at the country ...

— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier

... said Georgie; "lives over toward Little Beach,—him that was cast away in a fog in a dory down to the Banks once; like to have starved to death before he got picked up. I've heard him tell all about it. Don't look as if he'd ever had enough to eat since!" said the boy grimly. "He used to come over a good deal last winter, and go out after cod 'long o' father ...

— An Arrow in a Sunbeam - and Other Tales • Various

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