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ketch

  [kech]
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–noun Nautical.
a sailing vessel rigged fore and aft on two masts, the larger, forward one being the mainmast and the after one, stepped forward of the rudderpost, being the mizzen or jigger. Compare yawl 1 (def. 2).
Origin:
1475–85; earlier cache, appar. n. use of cache to catch
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ketch   (kěch)   
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.

[Middle English cache, from cacchen, to catch; see catch.]
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ketch 
"kind of small sailing vessel," 1655, probably from M.E. cacchen "to capture, ensnare, chase" (see catch).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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