dory

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small, narrow, flatbottom fishing boat with high sides and a sharp prow.
2. n. John Dory.
3. n. See walleye.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A popular name of the acanthopterygious fish Zeus faber, the type of family Zeidæ. It is found in the seas of Europe, and is esteemed very delicate eating. It seldom exceeds 18 inches in length. It is also called John-dory.
2. n. A local name in some parts of the United States and Canada, especially along Lake Michigan, of Stizostedion vitreum, the wall-eyed pikeperch.
3. n. A small boat; especially, a small flat-bottomed boat used in sea-fisheries, in which to go out from a larger vessel to catch fish.
4. n. An Australian fish, Zeus australis, of the family Zeidæ, the Australasian representative of Zeus faber, the European ‘John-dory.’
5. n. A broad-bodied, rough-scaled, bass-like fish, Histiopterus recurvirostris.

Wiktionary

1. n. nautical A small flat bottomed boat used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
2. n. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A European fish. See doree, and john doree.
2. n. (Zoöl.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also doré. See Pike perch.
3. n. A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
2. n. pike-like freshwater perches
3. n. marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters