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noun

Dinghy, Dingy, Dingey n.

A small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters. (Written also dinghey)

A small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat, carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars, sail, or a motor.

A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.

Synonyms: dory, rowboat.

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"Dinghy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the water swirling round the coral piers, for the tide was flooding into the lagoon; it had seized the little dinghy and was bearing it along far swifter than the sculls could have driven it. Seagulls screamed about them, the boat rocked and swayed. Dick shouted with excitement, and Emmeline shut her ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... is not, as a rule, acute. Like sheep the three men proceeded to carry up from the water's edge Stanley's boat, which was required to carry the heavy case, their own dinghy being too small. This done, they rowed off silently to the yawl, which was rolling lazily in the trough of the sea, a quarter of a mile from the shore. Once on board they were regaled with some choice French profanity from ...

— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman

... Scandinavian whose fortune thus assailed was at his home with his wife and children and brother. His yacht—THE MAUD—in the height of the storm, began to drag her anchor. He and his brother went out in a dinghy to secure her. At dusk the wife, young, petite and pretty, with strained anxiety watched the efforts of the men to beat back to shelter. Darkness came, blotting out the scene and its climax. Never after was anything seen ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... upon the slot, he had made a point of a big whaleboat. "Take your choice," he had said; "either new masts and rigging or that boat. I simply ain't going to sea without the one or the other. Chicken coops are good enough, no doubt, and so is a dinghy; but they ain't for Joe." And his partners had been forced to consent, and saw six and thirty pounds of their small capital vanish in the turn ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... ceased. We had started from Barcelona with our dinghy in tow; afterwards it was too risky to try to get her in, so we let her take her chance of the seas at the end of a comfortable scope of rope. Many times she had seemed to us completely overwhelmed, but soon we would see her bob up again on a wave, ...

— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad

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