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- a two-masted Dutch fishing vessel with a blunt bow, used in the North Sea.
noun Metalworking.
- an assistant at a drawbench.
noun
- a Dutch fishing vessel with two masts
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- a large concretion of consolidated material occurring in certain sedimentary rocks
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- Australian a hunter of dingoes
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- geology a formation of mid-Jurassic rocks in N England
“two-masted fishing boat,” used in North Sea fishery, mid-14c., of unknown origin. It likely is the source of the name Dogger Bank (1660s) for the great banks of shoals in the North Sea.