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ketch

a sailing vessel with two masts

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catch – seize or capture; trap or ensnare; contract, as a cold; a game where a ball is thrown from one person to another

ketch

(kĕch)

n. Nautical

A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with a mizzenmast stepped aft of a taller mainmast but forward of the rudder.

[Middle English cache, from cacchen, to catch; see catch.]

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ketch

(kɛtʃ)

(Nautical Terms) a two-masted sailing vessel, fore-and-aft rigged, with a tall mainmast and a mizzen stepped forward of the rudderpost. Compare yawl¹¹

[C15 cache, probably from cacchen to hunt; see catch]

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ketch

(kɛtʃ)

n.

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. Compare yawl (def. 2).

[1475–85; earlier cache, perhaps identical with catch]

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Noun

ketch - a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost

sailing ship, sailing vessel - a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts

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ketch

[ketʃ] N → queche m

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ketch

[ˈkɛtʃ] n → ketch m

ketch

n → Ketsch f

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Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?'

'But wot else is it, my lambs, as they sometimes ketches in rivers?'

Wot is it, besides fish, as they sometimes ketches in rivers?

'Leastways, lambs,' said Riderhood, observing him out of the corners of his eyes, 'that's wot I my own self sometimes ketches in rivers.

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'He gives me a 'apenny to pelt him home if I ketches him out too late,' says the boy.