(nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
“In order to be a skiful dodger, you must have a myriad of excuses ready at all times.”
“Some would regard his lies and indiscretions not as an injury to what is held sacred in American society, but merely as the failings of an artful dodger with an extraordinary capacity to trip on his own shoelaces.”
“A companionway dodger is intended to provide shelter while underway in sun, rough water, or rain.”
“We had every reason to believe that she was a malingerer, that this was just a dodge to get out of work.”
“Mr. Provence sees any forest exemption policy as a tax dodge, and proposed that the acreage minimum go to 100 acres rather than be reduced to 25 acres.”
“A guard shot at me, but with a quick dodge using my newly-acquired agility, I managed to avoid the bullet.”
“Practically all of them are mixed up in some kind of criminal dodginess anyway, so it's hardly eroding their morals.”
“If you are being suspected of a little dodginess yourself, you don't want to spend your time consorting with a person of such a spectacularly dubious reputation.”
“Sorry if I seemed patronising, I probably seem that way but actually what you're reading is major love for the space program despite its dodginess.”
