ketch
See also: Ketch
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kɛt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.
Noun
editketch (plural ketches)
- A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton[1], London: J. Brotherton et al, page 313:
- […] to finish her new Habit or Appearance, and make her Change compleat, he ordered her Sails to be alter’d; and as she sailed before with a Half-Sprit, like a Yacht, she sailed now with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch; so that, in a Word, she was a perfect Cheat […]
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: kits
Translations
editsailing vessel
See also
editFurther reading
editEtymology 2
editSee catch.
Verb
editketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)
- Pronunciation spelling of catch.
- 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.
- 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the fourth (A Turning), page 287:
- Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 270:
- […] I got to go to church and sweat and sweat—I hate them ornery sermons! I can’t ketch a fly in there, I can’t chaw, I got to wear shoes all Sunday.
- 1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter II, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 60:
- You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
- 1916, W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches, section 18:
- You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
- 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
- If so you gonna ketch hell.
- 1967 Apr, Atlantic Monthly, 103/1:
- You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
- 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
- Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.
Etymology 3
editFrom Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
Verb
editketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)
- (rare) To hang.
- 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.
- n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18
- Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.
- 1840, Fraser's Mag., number XXI, page 210:
- Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.
- 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
- I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.
- 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
Noun
editketch (plural ketches)
- A hangman.
French
editNoun
editketch m (plural ketchs)
- ketch (boat)
Further reading
edit- “ketch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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