ketch

[ kech ]

/ kɛtʃ /

noun Nautical.

a sailing vessel rigged fore and aft on two masts, the larger, forward one being the mainmast and the after one, stepped forward of the rudderpost, being the mizzen or jigger.

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Compare yawl¹(def 2). See also schooner(def 1), topsail schooner.

Origin of ketch

1475–85; earlier cache, apparently noun use of cache to catch

Words nearby ketch

keswick, ket, ket-, keta, ketamine, ketch, ketch-rigged, ketchikan, ketchup, kete, ketene

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Example sentences from the Web for ketch

We won't wait for no law; if we only ketch him we will hang him up so high that the buzzards can't git him.
Samantha at the World's Fair|Marietta Holley
He mek always a pictur of 'is men when 'e wan' to write the fish they ketch.
Rose Charlitte|Marshall Saunders
And then they say she fainted dead away, and fell over the rockin' chair, he not bein' near enough to ketch her.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 7.|Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
With the "ketch" begins what has been called the mast-and-a-half division of sailing vessels.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891|Various

And the same support was given to drownded for drowned, oncet for once, ketch for catch, ag'in for against and onery for ordinary.
The American Language|Henry L. Mencken

British Dictionary definitions for ketch

ketch

/ (kɛtʃ) /

noun

a two-masted sailing vessel, fore-and-aft rigged, with a tall mainmast and a mizzen stepped forward of the rudderpostCompare yawl 1 (def. 1)

Word Origin for ketch

C15 cache, probably from cacchen to hunt; see catch

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ketch

noun Nautical.

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