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dinghy

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?d??(?)i/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?d??.i/
    • Rhymes: -??i
  • Rhymes: -???i

Etymology

From Bengali ?????? (?i?ga).

Noun

dinghy (plural dinghies)

  1. (nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
  2. (nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.
Synonyms
  • tender

Translations

Derived terms

  • sailing dinghy
  • dinghy towing

Verb

dinghy (third-person singular simple present dinghies, present participle dinghying, simple past and past participle dinghied)

  1. (intransitive) To travel by dinghy.

Anagrams

  • hyding

French

Noun

dinghy m (plural dinghys)

  1. (nautical) dinghy

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shallop

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??æ.l?p/

Noun

shallop (plural shallops)

  1. (archaic) A kind of light boat; a dinghy. [late 16th C.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
      Into the same she leapt, and with the ore / Did thrust the shallop from the floting strand: / So safetie found at sea, which she found not at land.
  2. (archaic) A kind of large boat; a sloop.

Translations

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