Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small open boat carried or towed as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft by a larger boat.
- noun A small rowboat or motorboat.
- noun An inflatable rubber life raft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An East Indian name for a boat varying in size in different localities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A small
open boat , propelled byoars orpaddles , carried as atender ,lifeboat , orpleasure craft on aship - noun nautical An
inflatable rubber life raft
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Julian: Your desire for a dinghy is merely the tesseract shadow cast by the four-dimensional dinghy itself
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Some time later, she stepped out on deck, untied a rubber dinghy from the stern and fell from the yacht into the water.
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When cruising Mexico, your dinghy is not some indulgent toy, but your lifeline with both the shore and greater adventures.
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Because you'll make so many surf landings in Mexico, make sure your dinghy is equipped with wheels.
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When cruising Mexico, your dinghy is not some indulgent toy, but your lifeline with both the shore and greater adventures.
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Because you'll make so many surf landings in Mexico, make sure your dinghy is equipped with wheels.
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Maybe their dinghy is on the starboard side of the big boat.
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I had what we called a dinghy whistle, to be used in case you went down in the water.
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And now the dinghy was a good half mile below where the steamer was moored.
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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Two years of full-time involvement as skipper of TeamOrigin, Britain's America's Cup venture, means that his last competitive outing in a dinghy was the final race of the Olympic regatta in China in 2008.
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