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Meanings of ketch in English

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Usage of ketch in English
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The pilot of the ketch told them that he was from Mal-ta.
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
2
You always think that the fish you ketch yourself are the best.
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
3
I'll run ye in if I ketch ye hanging round any more.
That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West
4
They used to ketch people and take em out and whup em.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
5
Foot by foot the ketch drew nearer, her motion being almost imperceptible.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 01 (of 15), America...
6
The ketch has come close in and anchored, and looks so small.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
7
I made him a good proposition and I think it'll ketch him.
The Fighting Shepherdess
8
Mebbe we'll ketch a little cub-oneyou can carry in your arms.
The Young Forester
9
I betche we can't make it go; they's some ketch to it.
The Flying U's Last Stand
10
How I gwyne to ketch her en I out in de woods?
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
11
And they'd be comin' around and 'd ketch me where I was.
Old Caravan Days
12
Them patrollers roved trying to ketch niggers without passes to whup 'em.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
13
Seemed to be afraid somebody'd ketch 'im; I couldn't make out who.
Burnham Breaker
14
Scouts o' ourn-ifwe ketch 'em; Yankees-dothe blue bellies take 'em.
Ride Proud, Rebel!
15
O-pot-you-I will, says the O-posse of Yankees, come out to ketch him.
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
16
Do you know whether he will ketch her at home or not?
Mr. Opp
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United Kingdom
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