dorey

Noun (1)

dory (plural dories)

1. A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
   • 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.1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

Noun (2)

dory (plural dories)

1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
   • A DIATREE FOR DINNER. […] The ſeconde Courſe. […] Dorye1800, “Copy of an Original Manuscript, Entitled, 'A Breviate Touching the Order and Governmente of a Nobleman's House', &c. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. and...

Noun (3)

dory (plural dories or dorata)

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 usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
   • The basic weapon of the hoplite was the dory, a wooden-shaft spear six to nine feet long with a metal point at each end.1990, Richard A. Gabriel, The Culture of War: Invention and Early Development (Contributions in Military Studies; 96), New York, N.Y.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 89

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