dory

Meanings

Noun

• A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
• Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
• 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.

Adjective

• Of a bright yellow or golden color.

Origin

• Attested in from 1709 ; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
• , from Latin deauratus.
• Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόρυ.