WHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wherry mean? 

• WHERRY (noun)
  The noun WHERRY has 2 senses:

1. sailing barge used especially in East Anglia

2. light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors

  Familiarity information: WHERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sailing barge used especially in East Anglia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Norfolk wherry; wherry

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

barge; flatboat; hoy; lighter (a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals))

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

dinghy; dory; rowboat (a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled)

 Context examples 

But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first-rate man of war among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Laurie and Jo rowed one boat, Mr. Brooke and Ned the other, while Fred Vaughn, the riotous twin, did his best to upset both by paddling about in a wherry like a disturbed water bug.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)