Definitions for drogher

drogher dro·gher

Spelling: [droh-ger]
IPA: /ˈdroʊ gər/

Drogher is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in drogher (deghorr).

Definitions for drogher

noun

  1. a freight barge of the West Indies, rigged as a cutter or schooner.

Origin of drogher

1775-85; Dutch drog(h)er ship for fishing and drying herring and mackerel, equivalent to drog(en) to dry + -er -er1

Examples for drogher

Still the drogher lay over on her side and gave no signs of righting.

They, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba.

The drogher was hired by the day, and the longer she was out the more he pocketed.

After due discussion they hired a drogher, a country vessel employed in running between the surrounding islands and islets.

In the state of the sea, to get on board the drogher from the dinghy, was an operation too dangerous to be attempted.

The drogher spun round like a top, and off she flew before the hurricane.

Higson made a leap into the boat, which shoved off just as the drogher, giving a slight roll, sank from sight.

It proves, however, that the crew of the drogher must have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.

Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.

There was no one else with us, the crew of the drogher being already on board to await our coming.

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