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Ketch vs Schooner - What's the difference?

ketch | schooner |

Schooner is a hyponym of ketch.



As nouns the difference between ketch and schooner

is that ketch is a fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post while schooner is a sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.

As a verb ketch

is eye dialect of lang=en.

ketch

English

Etymology 1

(en)

Noun

(es)
  • A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
  • See also
    * yawl.

    Etymology 2

    See catch

    Verb

    (es)
  • .
  • * 1815 , D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England , I. 21,
  • I guess, he is trying to ketch' mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ' ketch'd with chaff.
  • * 1865 , , II. IV. xv., page 287
  • Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
  • * 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
  • * 1911 , , volume ii, page 60
  • You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
  • * 1916 , W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18
  • You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
  • * 1929 , H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
  • If so you gonna ketch hell.
  • * 1967 , Atlantic Monthly , Apr. 103/1
  • You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
  • * 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
  • Etymology 3

    From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (rare) To hang.
  • * 1681 , T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
  • 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
  • * n.d. , ''Ibid;;. No. 18
  • Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd , speed him say I.
  • * 1840', ' Fraser's Mag ., XXI. 210
  • Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft .
  • * 1859 , MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
  • I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A hangman.
  • schooner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=6 citation , passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land.}}
  • * 2004 , Reese Palley, The Best of Nautical Quarterly: Volume 1: The Lure of Sail , page 181,
  • Designed by Frank Payne's renowned Boston design office, and built in 1928 of longleaf yellow pine, this 82-footer has been a racing schooner' — a staysail '''schooner''' — since the heyday of ''Class-A'' ocean racing in ' schooners during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
  • * 2005 , Otmar Schäuffelen, Chapman: Great Sailing Ships of the World , page xxi,
  • In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.
  • * 2007 , Donald Launer, Lessons from My Good Old Boat , page 240,
  • Unfortunately, anyone looking for a schooner' today has limited choices. In the used boat market there are always some wooden hulls available, and occasionally ones of steel or aluminum, but fiberglass-hulled ' schooners are harder to come by.
  • (Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states ().
  • * , Fozen Pumps'', 2008, Kees de Hoog (editor), ''Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog , page 67,
  • Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.
  • * 2004 , Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under , page 94,
  • And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.
  • * 2009 , Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin , Lonely Planet, page 59,
  • For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA?s impressive wine.
  • (US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale ().
  • Usage notes

    * (sailing ship) Variants exist, such as with additional square sails on the fore topmast. Compare ketch and yawl which have a main and a mizzen mast. * (size of glass) A schooner is one of the larger measures, except in South Australia, where it is smaller. See for details.