Cryptic crossword clue
Gives out houses or boats 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DORIES

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What does DORIES mean?

DORIES noun
  1. A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
DORIES noun
  1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
DORIES noun
  1. 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.

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