ketch has definitions from the fields of nautical,transportation
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[ noun ] (nautical,transportation) a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

These were the ships of His Majesty 's Navy , herding the hulks of the East_Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists .

Related terms

sailing_vessel

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