ketch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 […]
  2. A hangman.
    — 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
  3. A pie or turnover. UK,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of catch. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
  2. To hang. rare
    — Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.

词形变化

ketches plural ketches present,singular,third-person ketching participle,present ketched participle,past ketched past ketches present,singular,third-person ketching participle,present ketched participle,past ketched past ketches plural ketches plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.
词源 2
See catch.
词源 3
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
词源 4
From Middle English kechel (“small cake”), from Old English *cēċel (“small cake”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōkil (“small cake”).
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