dory n
   1 [1887] 1984 KELLAND 47 Colonist: 'To fill the orders which have poured in this spring [the staff of The Excelsior Wood Factory] had to work day and night, from February the second, when the first order was received until nearly the end of May, one hundred and sixty-four dories had been produced.' 1891 Evening Telegram 1 Aug Captain Yetman reports that, on the 26th of July, he picked up a dory containing a single fisherman.
   2 Attrib, comb: dory factory, ~ fisherman, ~ jig, ~ mallet, ~ man, ~ plug, ~ scoop.
    1987 FIZZARD 143 When he gave up the operation, [he] established his own dory factory and developed his own style of dory, which had a reputation for being an exceptionally fine craft. Over the years he and his sons built over 3,000 dories. 1988 Sunday Express 5 June, p. 3 The son of a dory fisherman from the southwest coast, [he] help[ed] found Breakwater Books Ltd. 1984 KELLAND 185-6 [The dories] were not dropped into the water immediately, however, but would remain suspended, held up by their burtons or hoisting tackle on the ends of which were four foot long iron hooks, called dory jigs (or as the dorymen used to say, they would be kept in slings). 1987 FIZZARD 160 'We'd make a lot of little things like tow-pins, dory plugs, dory mallets [etc].' ibid 126 [He] says that when he was a doryman, he shipped three years in a row with Captain John. 1984 KELLAND 10 From the work benches of those stores there were manufactured...hand tubs, trawls tubs...dory scoops [etc].

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