Plural of dory

Forms of dory

Plural of dory by meaning

1. a small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both...: dories
2. a wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped...: dories or dorata

Dories in a sentence

• Gaily painted, with lots of sheer and a defiantly jaunty look to them, the dories have been pleasing the eyes of their beholders for nearly a century.1978 March, Steven H. Rubin, “The St. Pierre Dory: An Endangered Species”, in Boating, volume 43, number 3, →ISSN, page 72
• The traditional dories of the Pacific City fleet were just that.2008, Jeanna Rosembalm Bottenberg, The Dory Fleet of Pacific City, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 41
• As the fishery evolved, the practical and beautiful butterfly fleet—dories named for their widespread sails—gave way to more prosaic but still handsome diesel sternpickers and bowpickers.2012, Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place, →ISBN. From the entry sternpicker
• The wind was blowing great guns, and although dories are not notorious for their pace we made good time, and covered some ten miles in a short space of time.1904, Charles Robert Eustace Radclyffe, Big Game Shooting in Alaska, page 201. From the entry great guns

Meaning of dory

1. noun A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
2. noun Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
3. adjective Of a bright yellow or golden color.

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Questions about the plural of dory

What is the plural of dory?

The plural of dory is dories.

Is dory countable?

Dory is a countable noun.