What's the difference between ketch and yawl?

Ketch


Definition:

  • (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).

Yawl


Definition:

  • (n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
  • (v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell.

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