dinginess

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Long-boats bearing despatches rowed from ship to ship; hucksters from the shore came off in dories, dingies, and all variety of queer craft, to drive a farewell bargain with the sailors.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.

Some dingies are built as short as 9 feet, but they command but little speed, and are useful only as tenders to larger vessels for the purpose of going ashore, &c.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

Here there was much small traffic in dingies and dories and lobster-pots; the slower tides rocked the little craft at the moorings, and sent bright swinging light against the weather-worn planks under the pier.

From The Heart of Rachael by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

A string of four dingies trailed behind the sponger and as many poles, each thirty feet long, with a sponge-hook at one end, lay upon the deck.

From Dick in the Everglades by Dimock, A. W.

Off the promenade pier, where the excursion steamers bumped and reeked and blew their sirens, the committee-ship lay moored in a moving swarm of rowboats, dingies, and steam-launches.

From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir