What is "dories"

Usage examples of "dories".

These seaholders were about to lose their cotholds, and neither of the dories was longer than a dragon's body.

Well, it wouldn't be their problem to get the dories back down to the shore.

He nodded solemnly to where the dories had been propped up on stout branches to provide shelter for sleeping children.

On his way back down to the sands, he saw that one of the fishing dories had been manhandled up over the dune high-tide barrier.

When, in 1957,1 first visited the Sou'west Coast, men and boys were still fishing in open, seventeen-foot dories in win ter weather of such severity that their mittens often froze to .

When they returned in tlieir laden dories late in the afternoon, the excitement in the harbour had reached a crescendo.

There were power dories, skiffs, longliners and even a few rowboats with youngsters at the oars.

Wearing hip waders, the four fishermen went over the sides of their dories and began pursing the seine through the cove toward the mouth of the channel- Penned ahead of them was what we later estimated to have been about five tons of milling little fishes.

When I went aboard one of the dories to look at the remnants of it, I found I could pull it apart as easily as if it had been made of rotten straw.

I saw the flippers, big as dories, shimmer as they turned like hands on wrists.

Not the sea-going boats, the Walrus and Seamew, but the dories, the rowboats.

Then the lead dories would swing across, beat the water, force them to slow or turn back.

There were still a dozen skiffs and dories lying round the jetty and the shingle by it.

A great cry went up from the water as the men in the dories realized what was coming towards them.

We can send some lads south in the dories, maybe buy a boatload of food in Trondhjem, and a boat to put it in.