Plural of dory; small flat-bottomed fishing boats with high prows and sterns, or plural of John Dory fish.
From dory (possibly from Dutch 'drijven' meaning to drift, or from Sanskrit roots through Dutch trade); the plural marks the noun in standard English.
Dories were the workhorses of North Atlantic fishing—hundreds of dories would be stacked on larger vessels, and when fog rolled in, fishermen relied on memory and instinct to find their boats.
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