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UK
/dˈɪŋɡi/
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[ US /ˈdɪŋi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪŋi/ ]
NOUN
- a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
How To Use dinghy In A Sentence
- It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
- During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
- He explained to the Western People that an old dinghy, which has been patched up by his son on the morning of the accident, proved to be the rescue vehicle for the drowning family.
- The dinghy gathered speed as the wind filled her sails.
- Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged. Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
- Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees.
- We did dinghy drill in the harbour and this usually finished with us swimming around in the beautifully clear waters of this sheltered haven.
- The holidaymaker tried to climb the rock face after he and a pal landed at its foot in a rubber dinghy. The Sun
- The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
- The crowd began to uncouple from their conversations, and Floyd launched his dinghy onto the dark waters of the Chateau de Ville Ballroom and Function Facilities. Nuptial Indemnity