- dory (n.1)
- "small, flat-bottomed boat," 1709, American English, perhaps from a West Indian or Central American Indian language.
- dory (n.2)
- type of edible fish, mid-15c., from Old French doree, originally the fem. past participle of dorer "to gild," from Latin deauratus, from de- + aurare "to gild," from aurum (see aureate). So called in reference to its colorings.