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Ketch

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Noun

1. ketch

a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ketch

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noun
a two-masted sailing vessel, fore-and-aft rigged, with a tall mainmast and a mizzen stepped forward of the rudderpost
Compare yawl1 (sense 1)

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Ketch

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noun
a small, two-masted sailing vessel rigged fore and aft, with the mizzenmast somewhat shorter than the mainmast and located forward of the rudderpost
see also yawl1

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ketch

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n.
Nautical
A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with a mizzenmast stepped aft of a taller mainmast but forward of the rudder.

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