Dinghy vs Ketch - What's the difference?
dinghy | ketch |
(label) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
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, title= (label) An inflatable rubber life raft.
To travel by dinghy.
A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
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* 1815 , D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England , I. 21,
* 1865 , , II. IV. xv., page 287
* 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
* 1911 , , volume ii, page 60
* 1916 , W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
* 1929 , H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
* 1967 , Atlantic Monthly , Apr. 103/1
* 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
(rare) To hang.
* 1681 , T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
* n.d. , ''Ibid;;. No. 18
* 1840', ' Fraser's Mag ., XXI. 210
* 1859 , MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
A hangman.
As nouns the difference between dinghy and ketch
is that dinghy is (label) a small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship while ketch is a fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post or ketch can be a hangman.As verbs the difference between dinghy and ketch
is that dinghy is to travel by dinghy while ketch is or ketch can be (rare) to hang.dinghy
English
Noun
(wikipedia dinghy) (dinghies)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
Synonyms
* tenderDerived terms
* sailing dinghy * dinghy towingVerb
ketch
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(es)See also
* yawl.Etymology 2
See catchVerb
(es)- I guess, he is trying to ketch' mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ' ketch'd with chaff.
- Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
- You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
- You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
- If so you gonna ketch hell.
- You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
Etymology 3
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.Verb
(es)- 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
- Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd , speed him say I.
- Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft .
- I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.