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ketch¹
- /kɛt͡ʃ/
Sounds like catch (some accents, especially US) · Rhymes with -ɛtʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.
noun ketches
- A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post. […] 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 […]
ketch²
- /kɛt͡ʃ/
Sounds like catch (some accents, especially US) · Rhymes with -ɛtʃ
Where it comes from
See catch.
verb ketches · ketching · ketched
- Pronunciation spelling of catch I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
ketch³
- /kɛt͡ʃ/
Sounds like catch (some accents, especially US) · Rhymes with -ɛtʃ
Where it comes from
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
verb ketches · ketching · ketched
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To hang.
Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.
Similar: Guy Fawkes, stretch, string up, forhang, hang, ketch, send to the scaffold, scrag, truss, tuck up
noun ketches
- A hangman. 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
ketch⁴
- /kɛt͡ʃ/
Sounds like catch (some accents, especially US) · Rhymes with -ɛtʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English kechel (“small cake”), from Old English *cēċel (“small cake”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōkil (“small cake”).
noun ketches
- A pie or turnover.
Ketch⁵
noun Ketches
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Synonym of Jack Ketch (“a public executioner”).
Hanging was indeed the popular remedy for all criminal disorders. The legislator found patients for it, the judge prescribed it, and the Ketch administered it with the same callous and gallows indifference.
Similar: Jack Ketch
Translations
Talk about this word "ketch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ketch. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. ketch. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ketch "ketch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ketch.Cite this
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title = {ketch},
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year = {2026},
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