† Catch, n.4
Obs. = ketch, ‘Jack Ketch’.
| a 1672 Wood Life (1848) 234 When he had hanged about half an hour [he] was cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered under the gallows. |
† Catch, n.4
Obs. = ketch, ‘Jack Ketch’.
| a 1672 Wood Life (1848) 234 When he had hanged about half an hour [he] was cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered under the gallows. |
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