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wherry

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wher·ry  (hwr, wr)
n. pl. wher·ries
1. A light, swift rowboat built for one person and often used in racing.
2. A sailing barge used in East Anglia.
[Middle English whery.]
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Noun1.wherrywherry - sailing barge used especially in East Anglia
Norfolk wherry
barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter - a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
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
2.wherry - light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors
dinghy, dory, rowboat - a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled


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"All's well," he cried, as he entered; "I have hired a cedar wherry, as light as a canoe, as easy on the wing as any swallow.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
In this hurry it was not much minded that I came to the bar and paid my reckoning, telling my landlady I had gotten my passage by sea in a wherry.
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context
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 by Swift, Jonathan View in context
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