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ketch

ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)

1. Eye dialect spelling of catch..
   • 1815, D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England, I. 21,

     I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it wont du. Im tu old a bird to be ketchd with chaff.

   • 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, II. IV. xv., page 287

     Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?

   • 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
   • 1911, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, volume ii, page 60

     Youll ketch your death. The fires out long ago.

   • 1916, W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18

     Youll 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, Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 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.

ketch (plural ketches)

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

Definizione dizionario ketch

ketch

Altri significati:

sailing vessel

eye dialect spelling of catch.

(rare) To hang.

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