ketchn.¹

Brit.

/kɛtʃ/, U.S.

/kɛtʃ/

Forms: 1600s kesh, 1600s– ketch.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: catch n.¹

Etymology: Variant of catch n.¹, now usually distinguished in form in the sense below. Compare Dutch kits , †ketse (1572; < English catch n.¹).

Nautical.

A two-masted sailing vessel, now usually one which is fore-and-aft rigged, with the mizzen-mast shorter than the mainmast and stepped forward of the rudder post. Cf. catch n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > ketch

catch1370

ketch?1612

ketch rig1825

?1612 Charter Shipwrights Company 4 Repairing of Ships, Caruels, Hoyes, Pinnaces, Crayers, Ketches, Lighters, Boates, Barges, Wherries, or any other vessell or vessels.

1655 O. Cromwell Let. 13 June in Carlyle Those [dispatches] which were sent by a ketch immediately from hence.

1665 Oxf. Gaz. No. 3/4 Thursday last the Drake Friggot, and a Ketch with Goods,..were put back by the storms.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 313 She sailed..with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch.

1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126/2 There is a kind of warlike vessel called a prame..equipping in different French ports... They are long and broad, but draw very little water, and are rigged after the manner of a ketch.

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 587 Vessels of war are..a ketch, a machine-vessel, a smoaker.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxiii. 44 Outside these lay the tanned sails of a ketch or smack.

1911 A. Searcy By Flood & Field (1912) xlviii. 302 He had purchased a ketch, fitted her up with the requirements of a trepanger, and sailed away.

1961 J. Toland But not in Shame i. i. 13 By midnight, except for its patched regatta of ketches, proas, junks and sampans, the great harbor was almost barren.

2002 Times 3 Aug. (Weekend section) 3/1 At Brest in mid-July I was happily greeting familiar brigs and barques and ketches.

Compounds

General attributive, as ketch barge, ketch fashion, etc.

1745 George Faulkner Dublin Jrnl. 11 Mar. The Ketch Ship of War and others are there.

1761 London Chron. 9 June 558/2 They draw little water, are of great length and breadth, and rigged after the ketch fashion.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIX. (at cited word) At present only a few coasting vessels are rigged ketch fashion.

1896 Baily's Mag. June 476/1 The latest important addition to the ketch class is the Earl of Dunraven's Cariad, in which his lordship has been cruising in the Solent.

1912 Mariner′s Mirror 2 338 Especially in the Channel barges, a gaff and boom mizzen is now used, and the sail is so big as to resemble that of a ketch. The barges thus rigged are called ‘ketch-barges.’

1934 Times 15 Aug. 7/4 The yacht..was of the ketch type, with an auxiliary engine, and was fully rigged.

2013 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 17 The Australian Federal Police..seized 750kg of cocaine concreted into the hull of an 84-foot ketch yacht.

ketch rig n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > ketch

catch1370

ketch?1612

ketch rig1825

1825 Liverpool Mercury 28 Oct. 136/3 The vessel is of the ketch rig.

1912 Outing Mag. Aug. 629/1 Given a boat built on the proper lines with..a well designed ketch rig, and she will stand as much in the way of weather as a Gloucester fishing schooner.

2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 29/1 This new vessel is Wanderbird , a converted 90-foot Dutch fishing trawler with a..rounded stern, whaleback bow and a kind of steadying-sail ketch rig.

ketch-rigged adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways

lateen1540

high-riggeda1547

tall1548

well-rigged1577

under-sailed1599

over-rigged1627

schooner-rigged1769

sloop-rigged1769

ketch-rigged1775

spritsail1791

brig-rigged1796

square-rigged1802

ship-rigged1803

taunt-rigged1825

Bermudian-rigged1846

Bermudian1847

maphrodite1849

bark-rigged1858

butter-rigged1881

jackass rigged1883

1775 Morning Chron. 15 Aug. Two ketch-rigged vessels have been lately fitted out at Woolwich.

1845 N. H. Nicolas Dispatches & Lett. Ld. Nelson II. 177 La Vierge de Consolation, one hundred and twenty tons, ketch-rigged.

2017 C. Moore Making Mala vi. 269 The Evangel..was a purpose-built 16.7-metre ketch-rigged vessel with a 20-horsepower Gardner engine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† Ketchn.²

Forms: 1600s–1900s Ketch, 1600s Catch, 1800s Ketsch.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Jack Ketch

Etymology: < the name of Jack Ketch (see Jack Ketch n.). Compare slightly later Jack Ketch n.

Obsolete.

(A generic name for) an executioner or hangman. Also Master Ketch, Mr. Ketch. Cf. Jack Ketch n.The ‘New Catch’ referred to in quot. 1685 is Pascha Rose, who briefly replaced Jack Ketch as the common executioner in London in 1685–6.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman

boiec1320

hangman1393

hangerc1430

lockman1488

burrioc1540

bourreauc1550

burriourc1550

derrickc1600

passport-maker1602

topman1607

derrick-jastro?1609

verdugo1616

windpipe-stretcher1617

Gregorya1658

locksman1682

Ketch1685

Jack Ketch1696

finisher of the law1708

topsman1825

scrag-boy1843

scragger1897

1685 Pleasant Disc. Dial. between Old & New Jack Catch (single sheet) Old Catch, Ha—my Old Friend,..how fares it with thee? New Catch, But very indifferent.

1706 Wooden World Diss. (1708) 80 For a running Noose, this new Ketch is but a Fool to him.

1739 M. Browne Poems 184 Where Ruffian Ketch..Shews himself skill'd to rear a Scholar, Rope-Dances teaching—by the Collar.

1792 J. Croft Scrapeana 164 Just as Mr. Ketch was about to noose him, poor Monsieur..exclaimed..,—Ah! Misericorde!

1824 Nic-nac 17 Apr. 168/1 He waited to see if he could bargain with Maister Ketsch for the two gentlemen's clothes.

1847 All's Delusion iv. iii. 99 I have been a candidate for Ketch's office, have I, Mr. Blandish?

1912 E. Pugh City of World x. 276 Their fathers was in it, and their grand-dads..that as like as not pratted up the dancers of a gallows to be introduced to Death by Mr. Ketch.

Derivatives

ketchcraft n. rare the art or skill of an executioner or hangman.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman > craft or office of

hangmanship1824

ketchcraft1840

1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine xv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 210 Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† ketchv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Ketch n.²

Etymology: < Ketch n.²

Obsolete. slang.

transitive. To put (a person) to death by hanging. Cf. Ketch n.²

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)]

hangc1000

anhangOE

forhangc1300

to loll up1377

gallowa1400

twitchc1450

titc1480

truss1536

beswinga1566

trine1567

to turn over1570

to turn off1581

to turn (a person) on the toe1594

to stretch1595

derrick1600

underhang1603

halter1616

staba1661

noose1664

alexander1666

nub1673

ketch1681

tuck1699

gibbet1726

string1728

scrag1756

to hang up1771

crap1773

patibulate1811

strap1815

swing1816

croak1823

yardarm1829

to work off1841

suspercollatea1863

dangle1887

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 31 May 1/2 Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.

1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 48 ‘I'll ketch you,’ I'll hang you.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹?1612

n.²1685

v.1681

单词	ketch
释义	ketchn.¹ Brit. /kɛtʃ/, U.S. /kɛtʃ/ Forms: 1600s kesh, 1600s– ketch. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: catch n.¹ Etymology: Variant of catch n.¹, now usually distinguished in form in the sense below. Compare Dutch kits , †ketse (1572; < English catch n.¹). Nautical. A two-masted sailing vessel, now usually one which is fore-and-aft rigged, with the mizzen-mast shorter than the mainmast and stepped forward of the rudder post. Cf. catch n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > ketch catch1370 ketch?1612 ketch rig1825 ?1612 Charter Shipwrights Company 4 Repairing of Ships, Caruels, Hoyes, Pinnaces, Crayers, Ketches, Lighters, Boates, Barges, Wherries, or any other vessell or vessels. 1655 O. Cromwell Let. 13 June in Carlyle Those [dispatches] which were sent by a ketch immediately from hence. 1665 Oxf. Gaz. No. 3/4 Thursday last the Drake Friggot, and a Ketch with Goods,..were put back by the storms. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 313 She sailed..with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch. 1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126/2 There is a kind of warlike vessel called a prame..equipping in different French ports... They are long and broad, but draw very little water, and are rigged after the manner of a ketch. 1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 587 Vessels of war are..a ketch, a machine-vessel, a smoaker. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxiii. 44 Outside these lay the tanned sails of a ketch or smack. 1911 A. Searcy By Flood & Field (1912) xlviii. 302 He had purchased a ketch, fitted her up with the requirements of a trepanger, and sailed away. 1961 J. Toland But not in Shame i. i. 13 By midnight, except for its patched regatta of ketches, proas, junks and sampans, the great harbor was almost barren. 2002 Times 3 Aug. (Weekend section) 3/1 At Brest in mid-July I was happily greeting familiar brigs and barques and ketches. Compounds General attributive, as ketch barge, ketch fashion, etc. 1745 George Faulkner Dublin Jrnl. 11 Mar. The Ketch Ship of War and others are there. 1761 London Chron. 9 June 558/2 They draw little water, are of great length and breadth, and rigged after the ketch fashion. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIX. (at cited word) At present only a few coasting vessels are rigged ketch fashion. 1896 Baily's Mag. June 476/1 The latest important addition to the ketch class is the Earl of Dunraven's Cariad, in which his lordship has been cruising in the Solent. 1912 Mariner′s Mirror 2 338 Especially in the Channel barges, a gaff and boom mizzen is now used, and the sail is so big as to resemble that of a ketch. The barges thus rigged are called ‘ketch-barges.’ 1934 Times 15 Aug. 7/4 The yacht..was of the ketch type, with an auxiliary engine, and was fully rigged. 2013 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 17 The Australian Federal Police..seized 750kg of cocaine concreted into the hull of an 84-foot ketch yacht. ketch rig n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > vessel with specific number of masts > types of vessel with two masts > ketch catch1370 ketch?1612 ketch rig1825 1825 Liverpool Mercury 28 Oct. 136/3 The vessel is of the ketch rig. 1912 Outing Mag. Aug. 629/1 Given a boat built on the proper lines with..a well designed ketch rig, and she will stand as much in the way of weather as a Gloucester fishing schooner. 2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 29/1 This new vessel is Wanderbird , a converted 90-foot Dutch fishing trawler with a..rounded stern, whaleback bow and a kind of steadying-sail ketch rig. ketch-rigged adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways lateen1540 high-riggeda1547 tall1548 well-rigged1577 under-sailed1599 over-rigged1627 schooner-rigged1769 sloop-rigged1769 ketch-rigged1775 spritsail1791 brig-rigged1796 square-rigged1802 ship-rigged1803 taunt-rigged1825 Bermudian-rigged1846 Bermudian1847 maphrodite1849 bark-rigged1858 butter-rigged1881 jackass rigged1883 1775 Morning Chron. 15 Aug. Two ketch-rigged vessels have been lately fitted out at Woolwich. 1845 N. H. Nicolas Dispatches & Lett. Ld. Nelson II. 177 La Vierge de Consolation, one hundred and twenty tons, ketch-rigged. 2017 C. Moore Making Mala vi. 269 The Evangel..was a purpose-built 16.7-metre ketch-rigged vessel with a 20-horsepower Gardner engine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Ketchn.² Forms: 1600s–1900s Ketch, 1600s Catch, 1800s Ketsch. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Jack Ketch Etymology: < the name of Jack Ketch (see Jack Ketch n.). Compare slightly later Jack Ketch n. Obsolete. (A generic name for) an executioner or hangman. Also Master Ketch, Mr. Ketch. Cf. Jack Ketch n.The ‘New Catch’ referred to in quot. 1685 is Pascha Rose, who briefly replaced Jack Ketch as the common executioner in London in 1685–6. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman boiec1320 hangman1393 hangerc1430 lockman1488 burrioc1540 bourreauc1550 burriourc1550 derrickc1600 passport-maker1602 topman1607 derrick-jastro?1609 verdugo1616 windpipe-stretcher1617 Gregorya1658 locksman1682 Ketch1685 Jack Ketch1696 finisher of the law1708 topsman1825 scrag-boy1843 scragger1897 1685 Pleasant Disc. Dial. between Old & New Jack Catch (single sheet) Old Catch, Ha—my Old Friend,..how fares it with thee? New Catch, But very indifferent. 1706 Wooden World Diss. (1708) 80 For a running Noose, this new Ketch is but a Fool to him. 1739 M. Browne Poems 184 Where Ruffian Ketch..Shews himself skill'd to rear a Scholar, Rope-Dances teaching—by the Collar. 1792 J. Croft Scrapeana 164 Just as Mr. Ketch was about to noose him, poor Monsieur..exclaimed..,—Ah! Misericorde! 1824 Nic-nac 17 Apr. 168/1 He waited to see if he could bargain with Maister Ketsch for the two gentlemen's clothes. 1847 All's Delusion iv. iii. 99 I have been a candidate for Ketch's office, have I, Mr. Blandish? 1912 E. Pugh City of World x. 276 Their fathers was in it, and their grand-dads..that as like as not pratted up the dancers of a gallows to be introduced to Death by Mr. Ketch. Derivatives ketchcraft n. rare the art or skill of an executioner or hangman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman > craft or office of hangmanship1824 ketchcraft1840 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine xv, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 210 Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † ketchv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Ketch n.² Etymology: < Ketch n.² Obsolete. slang. transitive. To put (a person) to death by hanging. Cf. Ketch n.² ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)] hangc1000 anhangOE forhangc1300 to loll up1377 gallowa1400 twitchc1450 titc1480 truss1536 beswinga1566 trine1567 to turn over1570 to turn off1581 to turn (a person) on the toe1594 to stretch1595 derrick1600 underhang1603 halter1616 staba1661 noose1664 alexander1666 nub1673 ketch1681 tuck1699 gibbet1726 string1728 scrag1756 to hang up1771 crap1773 patibulate1811 strap1815 swing1816 croak1823 yardarm1829 to work off1841 suspercollatea1863 dangle1887 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 31 May 1/2 Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I. 1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 48 ‘I'll ketch you,’ I'll hang you. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?1612n.²1685v.1681
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ketchn.1

Compounds

† Ketchn.2

Derivatives

† ketchv.

ketchn.¹

† Ketchn.²