ketch

IPA: kˈɛtʃ

A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
A hangman.
Synonym of Jack Ketch (“a public executioner”)

Examples of "ketch" in Sentences

A small vessel known as a ketch had recently been captured from the
"A ketch is a two-masted craft, Master Geoffrey," John Lirriper said.
A ketch is a sort of ship, father, though I don't quite know what sort of ship.
What on most ranches in the Southwest is called a ketch (catch) rope is a reata in Mexican Spanish.
A small vessel known as a ketch had recently been captured from the Tripolitans, and Decatur selected this in which to make the venture.
"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."
Billingsgate: the ships begin opposite the Tower: two or three great three-masted vessels are shown: and two or three smaller ships of the kind called ketch, sloop, or hoy.
A small vessel known as a ketch had been recently captured from the Tripolitans by Decatur, and this prize was now named the Intrepid, and assigned to him for the work he had in hand.
A few years later, however, Prince Rupert and some other prominent members of the court and the city bought the third-hand forty-three-ton ketch, the "Nonsuch", and borrowed the fifty-four-ton "Eaglet" ketch from the King.
In response, the pilot of the ketch answered, that the ketch was a coaster from Malta, that she had lost her anchors in the late gale, and had been nearly wrecked, and that she now asked permission to ride by the frigate during the night.