Ketch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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 […]”

2. fiil 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.”

3. fiil To hang.

   “Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.”

4. isim A hangman.

   “'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.”

5. isim A pie or turnover.
6. isim 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.”