DINGHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dinghy mean? 

• DINGHY (noun)
  The noun DINGHY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DINGHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINGHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dinghy; dory; rowboat

Hypernyms ("dinghy" is a kind of...):

small boat (a boat that is small)

Meronyms (parts of "dinghy"):

oarlock; peg; pin; rowlock; thole; tholepin (a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing)

cross thwart; thwart (a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dinghy"):

rowing boat (a rowboat)

wherry (light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors)

 Context examples 

The crew had thought she would founder and had made for the Norwegian coast in the dinghy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)