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do·ry

1   [dawr-ee, dohr-ee]
noun, plural -ries.
a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides.
Origin:
1700–10, Americanism; alleged to be < Miskito dóri, dúri (if this word is itself not < E)

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do·ry

2   [dawr-ee, dohr-ee]
noun, plural -ries.
John Dory.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English dorre, dorray < Middle French doree (feminine past participle of dorer to gild) < Late Latin deaurāta; see dorado
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dory1 (ˈdɔːrɪ)
 
—n , pl -ries
1.  any spiny-finned marine teleost food fish of the family Zeidae, esp the John Dory, having a deep compressed body
2.  walleye another name for walleye
 
[C14: from French dorée gilded, from dorer to gild, from Late Latin deaurāre, ultimately from Latin aurum gold]

dory2 (ˈdɔːrɪ)
 
—n , pl -ries
(US), (Canadian) a flat-bottomed rowing boat with a high bow, stern, and sides
 
[C18: from Mosquito (an American Indian language of Honduras and Nicaragua) dóri dugout]

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dory
"small, flat-bottomed boat," 1709, Amer.Eng., perhaps from a West Indian or Central American Indian language.
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dory
"type of edible fish," c.1440, from Fr. doree, originally the fem. pp. of dorer "to gild," in reference to its colorings.
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dory

any of several marine fishes of the family Zeidae (order Zeiformes), found worldwide in moderately deep waters. The members of the family are large-mouthed fish, deep-bodied but thin from side to side.

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