Ketch

Noun

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

Translations

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Etymology 2
See catch

Verb

 * 1) * 1815, D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England, I. 21,
 * I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
 * 1) * 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, II. IV. xv., page 287
 * Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
 * 1) *1883 [see KNUCK 2].
 * 2) *1911, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, volume ii, page 60
 * You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
 * 1) * 1916, W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
 * You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
 * 1) * 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
 * If so you gonna ketch hell.
 * 1) *1967, Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 103/1
 * You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
 * 1) * 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
 * Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.
 * Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.

Etymology 3
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

Verb

 * 1)  To hang.
 * 2) * 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
 * 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
 * 1) * n.d., ''Ibid;;. No. 18
 * Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.
 * 1) *1840, Fraser's Mag., XXI. 210
 * Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.
 * 1) * 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
 * I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

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