(n.) An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
(n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
(v. t.) To catch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bedroom at JP Ketch cottage, St John’s Point.
(2) Photograph: Alamy There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu , an elegant 1946 ketch.
(3) They were refused passports, but Mosley stood by his rights under Magna Carta and bought a 60-ton ketch to sail to Lisbon in 1949 (the day before departure, passports arrived in the post).
Yacht
Definition:
(n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
(v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.
Example Sentences:
(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
(3) However, no deal has been forthcoming and the billionaire tycoon was photographed on his new yacht throughout the summer.
(4) We are not looking to own boats and yachts and stuff like that.
(5) The League ruled that because the tax offence involving the yacht Nelie had been confirmed by the Italian judge to have been a dishonest act, Cellino failed its owners and directors test.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
(8) The model, the beach, the yacht, what more is there to say?
(9) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
(10) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
(11) "Two women were hooded, they had their eyes taped," she said, describing how the yacht was quickly overwhelmed.
(12) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
(13) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(14) The plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval base commander in Portsmouth.
(15) But the primary cause, particularly near the yachting courses, is the waste that flows into the bay from surrounding communities, many of which emerged during periods of unregulated urban growth.
(16) You have this tension between the privacy that yachts and the sea afford against this desire to see and be seen,” she says.
(17) Downing Street has moved swiftly to torpedo a proposal from the education secretary, Michael Gove , that the public should donate a £60m royal yacht to the Queen as part of this year's diamond jubilee celebrations.
(18) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
(19) Not a single ship in the Unites States is equipped to handle wind turbines: Forget about whales and yacht routes.
(20) Officially, Deng is entitled to whatever she agreed to in the prenuptial agreement signed in 1999 when they married on a luxury yacht to the sounds of Charlotte Church's angelic voice.