Yawl vs Ketch - What's the difference?
yawl | ketch |
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
A fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
To cry out; to howl;
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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.
Ketch is a hyponym of yawl.
As nouns the difference between yawl and ketch
is that yawl is a small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars 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.As verbs the difference between yawl and ketch
is that yawl is to cry out; to howl while ketch is eye dialect of lang=en.yawl
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(head)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.