Jack Ketch
[ kech ]
/ kɛtʃ /
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Origin of Jack Ketch
First recorded in 1665–75; named after John Ketch (1663?–86), English executioner noted for his brutality
Words nearby Jack Ketch
jacking engine,
jack-in-office,
jack-in-the-box,
jack-in-the-green,
jack-in-the-pulpit,
Jack Ketch,
jackknife,
jackknife-fish,
jack ladder,
jackleg,
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How to use Jack Ketch in a sentence
Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.
But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
As I size up the scene, Jack White now wears the crown … and he wears it well.
Nets guard Jarrett Jack claimed credit for the shirts LeBron James and several other players were seen in before the game.
Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?
No, Jack is not much to look at, except when he wakes up—I have seen him quite transfigured on the platform.
Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.
British Dictionary definitions for Jack Ketch
noun
British archaic a hangman
Word Origin for Jack Ketch
C18: after John Ketch (died 1686), public executioner in England
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