Yacht vs Ketch - What's the difference?
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A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
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Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
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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 yacht and ketch
is that yacht is a slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered at times used as a residence offshore on a dock 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 yacht and ketch
is that yacht is (label) to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht while ketch is or ketch can be (rare) to hang.yacht
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, ice yacht , land yacht , motor yacht, motoryacht, MY , sailing yacht, steam yacht, SY , yacht club , yachter , yachting , yachtless , yachtsman}}Anagrams
* ----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.