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A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being…A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
Meaning
3 sensesA fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
кечkeč
a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost
A hangman.
(UK, dialectal)A pie or turnover.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compaFrom Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.
From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
From Middle English kechel (“small cake”), from Old English *cēċel (“small cake”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōkil (“small cake”).
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