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/kɛt͡ʃ/ · noun
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 […]
If so you gonna ketch hell.
Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.
I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
[…] 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.
You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
Use ketch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ketch means A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post..
Common synonyms include Guy Fawkes, stretch, string up, forhang.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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 […]
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