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ALL meanings of dory

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  • noun dory fish: John Dory 1
  • noun dory small, flat-bottomed boat 1
  • noun dory A narrow deep-bodied fish with a mouth that can be opened very wide. 1
  • noun plural dory a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides. 1
  • noun plural dory John Dory. 1
  • noun dory any spiny-finned marine teleost food fish of the family Zeidae, esp the John Dory, having a deep compressed body 0
  • noun dory a flat-bottomed rowing boat with a high bow, stern, and sides 0
  • noun dory a flat-bottomed rowboat with high, flaring sides, used chiefly in commercial fishing 0
  • noun dory John Dory 0
  • noun dory (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers. 0
  • noun dory Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish. 0
  • noun dory (obscure, cooking) A dish that has been coated or glazed with a yellow substance or with "almond milk". 0
  • noun dory 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. 0
  • adjective dory (obscure) Of a bright yellow or golden color. 0
  • adjective dory (obscure, cooking) Coated or glazed with a yellow substance or with "almond milk". 0
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