ketch
/kɛtʃ
/noun
A two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast.A motorsailer ketch can be sailed or powered by its motor....
- Contact had been lost with the yacht on September 6, but sweeps of the sea failed to spot the crew or the ketch, a converted fishing boat, which is believed to have sunk.
- For those born and bred on the coast, rushing seas are de rigueur, and they think nothing of a squall that puts their ketch over to port 45 degrees.
Origin
Mid 17th century: later form of obsolete catch, probably from catch.
Rhymes
- red-rumped swallow
- red rust
- redruthite
- red sable
- red sallow
- red sally
- red salmon
- red sandal tree
- red sandalwood
- red sanders
- red sanderswood
- red sander'swood
- red sauce
- red scale
- red scallop
- red schorl
- Red Sea
- red-sear
- red seaweed
- red-sensitive
- red setter
- red-shafted flicker
- redshank
- red shift
- redshirt