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Definition of ketch noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ketch

noun

/ketʃ/

/ketʃ/

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a sailing boat with two masts (= posts to support the sails)
Word Originmid 17th cent.: later form of obsolete catch, probably from catch.

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