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Wherry vs Dory - What's the difference?

wherry | dory |

As nouns the difference between wherry and dory

is that wherry is a light embarcation used to navigate inland waterways while dory is a small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

As an adjective dory is

of a bright yellow or golden color.

wherry

English

(wikipedia wherry)

Noun

(wherries)
  • A light embarcation used to navigate inland waterways.
  • A flat-bottomed vessel previously employed by British merchants, notably in East Anglia, sometimes converted into pleasure boats.
  • * 1789 ,
    • Here I used to enjoy myself in playing about the bridge stairs, and often in the watermen's wherries', with other boys. On one of these occasions there was another boy with me in a '''wherry''', and we went out into the current of the river: while we were there two more stout boys came to us in another '''wherry''', and, abusing us for taking the boat, desired me to get into the other '''wherry'''-boat. Accordingly I went to get out of the ' wherry I was in; but just as I had got one of my feet into the other boat the boys shoved it off, so that I fell into the Thames; and, not being able to swim, I should unavoidably have been drowned, but for the assistance of some watermen who providentially came to my relief.
  • * 1928 ,
    • The river was astir early and late with barges, wherries , and craft of every description.
  • A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is extracted.

    • See also

    * ferry

    dory

    English

    Etymology 1

    (Wikipedia) Attested in ; assumed to be related to Central of Western language, perhaps (etyl).

    Noun

    (dories)
  • (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
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    • 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
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    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), , from (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (dories)
  • 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".
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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obscure) Of a bright yellow or golden color.
  • * 1962' (quoting '''c. 1398 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
    • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.
  • (obscure, cooking) Coated or glazed with a yellow substance or with "almond milk".
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
    • Soupes dorye'. — Take gode almaunde mylke Do þe ' dorry a-bowte.
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
    • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

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    Alternative forms

    * doru

    Noun

    (dories)
  • 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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  • * 2011' (republished '''2014 as an e-book), Chris McNab, ''A History of the World in 100 Weapons , Oxford: Osprey Publishing, , page 37:
    • 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.
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