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ketches

ketches is the plural of ketch.

Meaning of ketch

Noun (1)

ketch (plural ketches)

  1. 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 […]1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al, page 313

Noun (2)

ketch (plural ketches)

  1. A hangman.
    • 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14

Noun (3)

ketch (plural ketches)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A pie or turnover.

See all 5 meanings of ketch

Noun capitalized: Ketches

Ketches

  1. (plural) plural of Ketch

Phrases with ketches

Questions about ketches

What is ketches the plural of?
Ketches is the plural of ketch.
What part of speech is ketches?
Ketches is a noun.

Words near ketches in the dictionary

  1. ketched
  2. Ketchem
  3. Ketchems
  4. Ketcher
  5. Ketchers
  6. ketches
  7. Ketcheson
  8. Ketchikan
  9. Ketchikan Gateway Borough
  10. ketching
  11. Ketchum

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