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ketch (n.)
kind of small, strong, two-masted sailing vessel, 1650s, earlier
catch
(mid-15c.),
cache
(late 14c.), probably from Middle English
cacchen
"to capture, ensnare, chase" (see
catch
(v.)). Compare the sense development in
yacht
.
