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A small, flat-bottomed rowing boat, light enough to stack on a fishing schooner's deck.
means A small, narrow, flat-bottomed boat with high sides, traditionally rowed by fishermen.
from From Miskito (a Central American language) 'dóri', a dugout canoe, recorded in English in the late 1600s. New England fishermen later gave the name to the flat-bottomed boats they carried on schooners.
- design
- flat bottom and high flared sides, easy to build and hard to tip
- home
- Grand Banks cod fishermen launched them from schooners to fish by hand
- stacking
- nested inside one another on deck to save space
- the fish
- John Dory is an unrelated fish whose name may share the word