noun
definition
A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
Examples of dory in a Sentence
Once things are going all hunky dory, trouble must arrive.
The food puts most restaurants to shame, with a mouth-watering mix from confit of duck and grilled john dory to saddle of rabbit.
Just outside Cowes we witnessed a 17ft fishing dory sinking rapidly.
Samsung E710 gadgety phone purchased 22/02/04 all hunky dory.
John Dory fileted and stuffed with mushroom and pumpkin mousseline.
There is also a wide range of fish available, including snapper, grouper and John Dory.
Marlin sets off to look for Nemo, joined by Dory, a regal blue tang with a short memory span.
It has, however, been shown that the flatfishes bear no relationship to the Gadids, but are most nearly akin to the John Dories (see Dory).
Naturalizer shoes for women, the Dory is probably what comes to mind, because it does look like a more feminine Birkenstock.
The Stromateidae, or pomfrets, resemble the dory, a Mediterranean form, and extend to China and the Pacific. The sword fishes, Xiphiidae, the lancet fishes, Acanthuridae, and the scabbard fishes, Trichuridae, are distributed through the seas of south Asia.