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ketch /ketʃ/ noun [countable]  TTWa small sailing ship with two masts 双桅小帆船

Examples from the Corpus

ketch• She's a beauty; a forty-foot ketch built of mahogany on oak.• In his thirty-two-foot ketch, Nuria, he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island.• You listen to his gruff voice giving orders to his crew as they row him out to his ketch.• From an unmarked ketch the authorities watched him feeding scraps of metal from the car-deck to the seagulls which exploded.Origin ketch (1600-1700) Probably from catch

ketch nounChinese  

small Corpus a ship two sailing masts with

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ketch /ketʃ/ noun [countable]a small sailing ship with two masts

ketchBrE /ketʃ/ 🔊NAmE /ketʃ/ 🔊 nouna sailing boat with two masts (= posts to support the sails) 双桅帆船