Dory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small boat; especially, a small flat-bottomed boat used in sea-fisheries, in which to go out from a larger vessel to catch fish.
  • noun. A popular name of the acanthopterygious fish Zeus faber, the type of the family Zeidæ.
  • noun. A local name in some parts of the United States and Canada, especially along Lake Michigan, of Stizostedion vitreum, the wall-eyed pikeperch.
  • noun. An Australian fish, Zeus australis, of the family Zeidæ, the Australasian representative of Zeus faber, the European ‘John-dory.’
  • noun. A broad-bodied, rough-scaled, bass-like fish, Histiopterus recurvirostris.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
  • noun. A European fish. See doree, and john doree.
  • noun. The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
  • noun. A small flat bottomed boat used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
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  • noun. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
  • noun. pike-like freshwater perches
  • noun. marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
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    "The first appearance of the word dory for fish is listed as 1440."
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