Livery vs Dory - What's the difference?
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Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
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The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
(US) A taxicab or limousine.
(legal) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
(legal) The writ by which property is obtained.
(historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
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(historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
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Release from wardship; deliverance.
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A low grade of wool.
(archaic) To clothe.
(nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
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Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
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(obscure, cooking) A dish that has been coated or glazed with a yellow substance or with "almond milk".
= (obscure) Of a bright yellow or golden color.
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(obscure, cooking) Coated or glazed with a yellow substance or with "almond milk".
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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 not thrown, but thrust at opponents with one hand.
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As nouns the difference between livery and dory
is that livery is any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants while dory is (nautical) a small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers or dory can be any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish or dory can be 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 not thrown, but thrust at opponents with one hand.As a verb livery
is (archaic) to clothe.As an adjective dory is
(obscure) of a bright yellow or golden color.livery
English
(wikipedia livery)Noun
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- By wearing livery , the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.
- Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.
- The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.
- It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.
Derived terms
* livery stableVerb
- He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.
Anagrams
* verily English transitive verbsdory
English
Etymology 1
(Wikipedia) Attested in ; assumed to be related to Central of Western language, perhaps (etyl).Noun
(dories)- He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory , clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), , from (etyl) (m).Noun
(dories)Adjective
(en adjective)- dorr?&
- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.
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- Soupes dorye'. — Take gode almaunde mylke Do þe ' dorry a-bowte.
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- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
Etymology 3
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* doruNoun
(dories)- The principal weapon of the hoplite was the dory'' spear. It was unusually long – it could measure up to 10ft (3m) in length, and weighed about 4.4lb (2kg). At one end was a broad, leaf-pattern spearhead, while at the other end was a metal spike called a ''sauroter . The purpose of the spike is much debated: it almost certainly acted as a counterbalance, making the spear easier to hold and wield; it could have been used as an improvised spear point, or for making downward attacks on the enemy's exposed feet; or it might even have been embedded in the ground to keep the spear in place.