OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18665

dinghy

/ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)i/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
batel • bote de remo • dingui • lancha • patera
A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout,…
balsa de caucho • bote inflable
An inflatable rubber life raft.
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