Ketch is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KETCH in dictionary:

VERB:
• (obsolete) to catch
• To catch.
• (in archaic usage) catch
NOUN:
• a small two-masted sailing vessel
• a two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast.
• An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
• A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
• a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost
• two-masted sailing vessel
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a sailing vessel

Words related to KETCH

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How to use KETCH in a sentence

• De-ca-tur made his men lie down, so that the pirates would not know how many men he had on his ketch.
• The pilot of the ketch told them that he was from Mal-ta.
• When the Americans got back on the ketch, they could not untie the rope that held the ketch to the ship.
• The cannon balls were splashing the water all round the ketch.
• Presently some of them came running in a state of great excitement to the harbour, where a few men were unloading a coal ketch, and a great many were superintending the operation.
• So Johnny Gilbert ne’er allows an anxious thought to fetch him, For well he knows the Government don’t really want to ketch him.
• That as soon as he reached Mattapony House, he took his boat and went on board the ketch.
• It was added, that Colonel Talbot was now detained on board of the ketch, as a prisoner, by Captain Allen.
• Upon reaching the river, all four went on board the ketch to learn the particulars of the quarrel.
• Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
• He used to scare us by telling us that the pateroles would ketch us.
• Jack Ketch had a merry time of it, while society looked on well pleased, for the most part.
• The speed of the ketch diminished until it seemed almost to have come to rest.
• The gliding ketch had now come so near to the large vessel in front, that the latter had lost its dimness of outline and was much more plainly visible.
• The ketch was now close aboard the frigate-like craft, steering directly towards it.
• As the ketch came close a boat was lowered with a line, and was rowed towards the frigate, to whose fore-chains the end was made fast.
• The head fast was cast off, and the ketch fell astern.
• A small vessel known as a ketch had recently been captured from the Tripolitans, and Decatur selected this in which to make the venture.
• Then the order was given to return to the ketch, the cable was cut, the sweeps got out, and the ketch drew rapidly away from the burning vessel.
• The crew of the ketch could make no resistance as they were all down with the smallpox.
• The son of a great author cannot be handled too tenderly by the critical Jack Ketch.
• They sure better not ketch a gun at the quarters of colored folks.
• It was a trap, and into the trap sailed two white men in a small ketch.
• And at Ugi lay the ketch ARLA, Captain Hansen, skipper.
• They found a French gentleman, one Monsieur Berger, on board, whom they carried with them, took out about 2000 dollars, and sold the ketch to the chief ashore for provisions.
• There was an outer reef, but Thalassa knew the passage, and steered the ketch through a tortuous channel above sunken needle-pointed rocks to a little sheltered harbour inshore.
• One man jumped for the rocks when the ketch struck, and was drowned.
• There was just one inexperienced amateur to change the sails and steer a seventy-ton ketch across the North Sea into Yarmouth Roads.
• The fires lasted until after eight bells, when the captain, believing that he scented a breeze ahead, turned us out into the boat again, to tow the ketch toward it.
• It would be on our way, at any rate, to send word to the ketch, which was near-about due.

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