The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DORY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DORY
- Fish from front or stern of dinghy
- Fish from either side of dinghy
- Oscar tucked into overcooked fish
- This party starts otherwise with fish
- Boat perch
- Prepare line for fish
- Fish supply lines
- Fifty rods cast about — this fish must be caught!
- Oil originally found in desiccated fish
- Fish out of water? Nothing to be kept
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What does DORY mean?
DORY noun- A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
- Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
- Of a bright yellow or golden color.
- A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.