Definition of ketch Ketch
/kษหสง/ - [kech] - ketch
We found 12 definitions of ketch from 8 different sources.
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What does ketch mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: ketches |
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| ketch - a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost |
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Wiktionary 
- ketch (Noun)
A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post. - ketch (Noun)
A hangman. - ketch (Verb)
To hang.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary ๐
- ketch (n.)
An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden. - ketch (n.)
A hangman. See Jack Ketch. - ketch (v. t.)
To catch.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary ๐
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kech, n. a small two-masted vessel, generally used as a yacht or a bomb-vessel. [Corr. from Turk. qaรญq, a boat, whence Fr. caรฏque.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine โ๏ธ
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a vessel equipped with two masts, viz. the main-mast and mizen-mast, and usually from 100 to 250 tons burthen.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book โต
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A vessel of the galliot order, equipped with two masts--viz. the main and mizen masts--usually from 100 to 250 tons burden. Ketches were principally used as yachts for conveying great personages from one place to another. The peculiarity of this rig, affording so much space before the main-mast, and at the greatest beam, caused them to be used for mortar-vessels, hence--Bomb-ketches, which are built remarkably strong, with a greater number of riders than any other vessel of war, as requisite to sustain the violent shock produced by the discharge of their mortars. (See BOMB-VESSEL, MORTAR, and SHELL.)
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ๐
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Jack Ketch; a general name for the finishers of the law, or hangmen, ever since the year 1682, when the office was filled by a famous practitioner of that name, of whom his wife said, that any bungler might put a man to death, but only her husband knew how to make a gentleman die sweetly. This officer is mentioned in Butler's Ghost, page 54, published about the year 1682, in the following lines:
Part of speech
๐ค- ketch, noun, singular of ketches.
