† bomb-ketchn.
Obsolete.
A small ketch-rigged vessel, carrying one or two mortars for bombarding.
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1693 London Gaz. No. 2862/2 Several Bomb-ketches, Fire-ships, etc.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. (1806) July 341/2 Four French men of war and a bomb-ketch, entered the Bay.
1830 I. Taylor Ship 105 The bomb-ketch is contrived to carry one mortar, but is yet enough of a ship to bear the sea.
1875 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. I. 548/1 Bomb-ketch, an obsolete form of mortar-vessel..nearly seventy feet long and drew eight or nine feet of water. It..carried two mortars.
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