dory

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
    — From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea.
  2. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
    — A DIATREE FOR DINNER. […] The ſeconde Courſe. […] Dorye
  3. 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.
    — The basic weapon of the hoplite was the dory, a wooden-shaft spear six to nine feet long with a metal point at each end.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a bright yellow or golden color. obsolete

词形变化

dories plural dories plural more dory comparative most dory superlative dories plural dorata plural doru alternative

词源

词源 1
Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
词源 2
From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.
词源 3
PIE word
*dóru
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru).
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