Definitions for ketch
kɛtʃketch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. ketchnoun

   a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ketchnoun

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

2. ketchverb

   To hang.

3. ketchverb

   Eye dialect 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.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ketchnoun

   A heavy ship.

   Etymology: from caicchio, Italian, a barrel.

   I wonder
   That such a ketch can with his very bulk
   Take up the rays o’ th’ beneficial sun,
   And keep it from the earth. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ketch

   A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post. In the 19th and 20th centuries, ketch rigs were often employed on larger yachts and working watercraft, but ketches are also used as smaller working watercraft as short as 15 feet, or as small cruising boats, such as Bill Hanna's Tahiti ketches or L. Francis Herreshoff's Rozinante and H-28.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ketch

   A ketch is a type of sailing craft with two masts, the main mast being taller and the after mast (mizzen) being located forward of the rudder post. It is designed for ease of handling and ability to sail well in all wind conditions. It can be used for both sailing and fishing. The main distinguishing feature of a ketch is that the forward of its two masts (the "mainmast") is larger than the after mast (the "mizzen").

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ketchnoun

   an almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden

2. Ketchnoun

   a hangman. See Jack Ketch

3. Ketchverb

   to catch

4. Etymology: [See Catch.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ketch

   A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts, both rigged fore-and-aft: a mainmast and a shorter mizzen mast abaft the mainmast but forward of the rudder post.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ketch

   kech, n. a small two-masted vessel, generally used as a yacht or a bomb-vessel. [Corr. from Turk. qaíq, a boat, whence Fr. caïque.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ketch

   A vessel of the galliot order, equipped with two masts--viz. the main and mizen masts--usually from 100 to 250 tons burden. Ketches were principally used as yachts for conveying great personages from one place to another. The peculiarity of this rig, affording so much space before the main-mast, and at the greatest beam, caused them to be used for mortar-vessels, hence--Bomb-ketches, which are built remarkably strong, with a greater number of riders than any other vessel of war, as requisite to sustain the violent shock produced by the discharge of their mortars. (See BOMB-VESSEL, MORTAR, and SHELL.)

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. KETCH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ketch is ranked #45653 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Ketch surname appeared 468 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Ketch.
   
   91.2% or 427 total occurrences were White.
   2.3% or 11 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.1% or 10 total occurrences were Black.
   1.7% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Sailing Vessel

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How to pronounce ketch?

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How to say ketch in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ketch in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ketch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ketch
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ketch
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ketch
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketch
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ketch
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ketch
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ketch
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=ketch
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ketch