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

noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of catch.

noun. A variant of keech.

noun. A small, strongly built, twomasted vessel, usually of from 100 to 250 tons burden, but sometimes of less.

noun. An almost obsolete form of sailing vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.

noun. In modern usage, a sailing vessel having two masts, with the main mast taller than the aftermost, or mizzen, mast.

noun. See under Bomb.

transitive verb. To catch.

noun. A hangman. See jack ketch.

verb. To hang.

noun. A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.

verb. Eye dialect spelling of catch..

noun. a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost

""Yes, Madam Budd, yes; we have them sort of catches, too; but I now mean the vessel with a peculiar rig, which we call a ketch, you know.""

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sailing ship  sailing vessel  

etch  fetch  kvetch  meche  outstretch  

'ave  Stan  b'lieve  bonnier  do't  

catch  

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