ketch
suomi-englanti sanakirjaketch englannista suomeksi
ketsi
Substantiivi
ketch englanniksi
A fore-and-aft rigged vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
{{quote-book|en|year=1720|author=Daniel Defoe|title=Captain Singleton|location=London|publisher=J. Brotherton et al|page=313|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeadventurespy00defo
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{{quote-text|en|year=1815|author=D. HUMPHREYS|title=Yankey in England|section=I. 21
(RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend)
(RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer) I got to go to church and sweat and sweat—I hate them ornery sermons! I can’t ketch a fly in there, I can’t chaw, I got to wear shoes all Sunday.
(RQ:Wharton Ethan Frome)
{{quote-text|en|year=1916|author=W. O. BRADLEY|title=Stories & Speeches|section=18
1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
- If so you gonna ketch hell.
{{quote-journal|en|year=1967|journal=Atlantic Monthly|month=Apr|section=103/1
1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, ''New Black Voices'' (1972), page 445
- Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.
To hang.
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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.
{{quote-journal|en|year=1840|journal=Fraser's Mag.|issue=XXI|page=210
1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
- I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.
A hangman.
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