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A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with a mizzenmast stepped aft of a taller mainmast but forward of the rudder.

An obsolete or dialectal form of catch.

A small, strongly built, twomasted vessel, usually of from 100 to 250 tons burden, but sometimes of less.

A variant of keech.

A hangman. See jack ketch.

An almost obsolete form of sailing vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, — usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.

In modern usage, a sailing vessel having two masts, with the main mast taller than the aftermost, or mizzen, mast.

See under Bomb.

To catch.

A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.