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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.

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

v. Eye dialect spelling of catch..

v. To hang.

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

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

n. A hangman. See jack ketch.

v. To catch.

n. An obsolete or dialectal form of catch.

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

n. A variant of keech.

n. 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.""

sailing vessel    sailing ship   

yawl   

jack ketch   

catch   

etch    fetch    kvetch    meche    outstretch    sketch    stretch   

b'lieve    Stan    felucca    hep    longboat    pinnace    bonnier    do't    fergit    fireship