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Definition of Dories
1. dory [n] - See also: dory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dories
Literary usage of Dories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1882)
"and buoys which aro already in the dories, and also place in them the other necessary
... The middle dories are then equipped in a similar manner by their ..."
2. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"While fishing, the vessel lies at anchor on the bank, and the fishermen go off
from her in "dories," a kind of flat-bottomed boat. When the dories are ..."
3. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... Twenty-nine Epigrams, addressed to Cotemporary Poets, by John dories of
Hereford, about 1611. ..."
4. Catalogue of the Thomas B. Clarke Collection of American Pictures by Thomas Benedict Clarke, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1891)
"... and at which some dories are moored, boys are catching their shiny prey with
the rod and line. In the background the village is seen, with its fishing ..."
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