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n. - A sailing vessel with two masts.

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  • A small vessel known as a ketch had recently been captured from the
  • "A ketch is a two-masted craft, Master Geoffrey," John Lirriper said.
  • A ketch is a sort of ship, father, though I don't quite know what sort of ship.
  • With the "ketch" begins what has been called the mast-and-a-half division of sailing vessels.
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  • I want to "catch" (to capture, grasp and hold) that "ketch" (a small sailboat).
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