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dinghy
[ding-gee]
noun
plural
dinghiesany small boat designed as a tender or lifeboat, especially a small ship's boat, rowed, sailed, or driven by a motor.
a boat used by warships, having four single-banked oars and a spritsail.
any of various rowing or sailing boats used in sheltered waters along the Indian coasts to transport passengers and freight.
an inflatable life raft.
dinghy
/ ˈdɪŋɪ /
noun
Also (esp formerly): dingy. dingey. any small boat, powered by sail, oars, or outboard motor
verb
slang, (tr) to ignore (a person) or avoid (an event)
Word History and Origins
Origin of dinghy1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dinghy1
Example Sentences
In July 2015 a coastguard in Dover told the BBC that two migrants had been rescued from a dinghy just offshore in the Channel.
About half an hour later, a dinghy full of armed troops wearing tactical gear pulled alongside the Marinette, with a much larger military vessel visible in the background.
What followed was a three month journey through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya, before eventually arriving in Italy on an overcrowded dinghy.
They are seen boarding a dinghy and motoring away into the darkness of the Caribbean Sea, headed for their luxury yacht, anchored in the next bay.
Ten of them are being deployed by a newly branded War Department to Puerto Rico to combat drug traffickers in dinghies.
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