dory

Meanings

1. A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

1. Of a bright yellow or golden color.

1. 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.

1. A diminutive of the female given names Dorothy or Doris.
2. A surname.

Etymology

Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.