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dory

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  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.
  4. noun 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.

Similar words

dinghy rowboat hunky doru doryman doryline john doree john dory fisher-boat dobber

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Word family

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