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dory

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dory1
1. any spiny-finned marine teleost food fish of the family Zeidae, esp the John Dory, having a deep compressed body
2. another name for walleye (the fish)

dory2
US and Canadian a flat-bottomed rowing boat with a high bow, stern, and sides


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It was splendid to fish for trout over the bridge and the two girls learned to row themselves about in the little flat-bottomed dory Mr.
Then Captain Jim told the story--an old, old forgotten story, for it was over fifty years since Margaret had fallen asleep one day in her father's dory and drifted--or so it was supposed, for nothing was ever certainly known as to her fate--out of the channel, beyond the bar, to perish in the black thundersquall which had come up so suddenly that long-ago summer afternoon.
"You are with me in the dory - Manuel my name, and I come from schooner "We're Here" of Gloucester.
 
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