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== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɛt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ɛtʃ Homophone: catch (some accents, especially US) === Etymology 1 === From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch. ==== Noun ==== ketch (plural ketches) A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post. ===== Derived terms ===== bomb ketch ===== Descendants ===== → Dutch: kits ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== yawl ===== Further reading ===== ketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === See catch. ==== Verb ==== ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched) Pronunciation spelling of catch. 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184 If so you gonna ketch hell. 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445 Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you. === Etymology 3 === From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century. ==== Verb ==== ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched) (rare) To hang. Synonyms: Guy Fawkes, stretch, string up; see also Thesaurus:kill by hanging n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18 Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I. 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer), I'll ketch you; I'll hang you. ==== Noun ==== ketch (plural ketches) A hangman. 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. === Etymology 4 === From Middle English kechel (“small cake”), from Old English *cēċel (“small cake”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōkil (“small cake”). ==== Noun ==== ketch (plural ketches) (UK, dialectal) A pie or turnover. == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === ketch m (plural ketchs) ketch (boat) === Further reading === “ketch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012