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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A light, swift rowboat built for one person and often used in racing.
  2. n. A sailing barge used in East Anglia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To transport in, or as in, a wherry.
  2. n. A light shallow rowboat, having seats for passengers, and plying on rivers and harbors. It resembles the dory.
  3. n. A light half-decked fishing-vessel used in different parts of Great Britain and Ireland.
  4. n. A liquor made from the pulp of crab-apples after the verjuice is expressed. Sometimes called crabwherry.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A light embarcation used to navigate inland waterways.
  2. n. A flat-bottomed vessel previously employed by British merchants, notably in East Anglia, sometimes converted into pleasure boats.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
  2. n. A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.
  3. n. A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors
  2. n. sailing barge used especially in East Anglia

Etymologies

  1. Middle English whery.

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  • chained_bear "...followed almost immediately by the Tamar's barge brining a score of glum but resigned and obviously competent Skates men from a ship called Skate to the larboard side and by a Plymouth wherry with two pink-faced young men, very carefully shaved, wearing identical uniforms..."
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 49 Feb 10, 2008

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