ketch

• As the cargo of the ketch was mainly irreplaceable orange-coded supplies, its timely rescue was a double blessing. —  The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
• A small vessel known as a ketch had recently been captured from the Tripolitans, and Decatur selected this in which to make the venture. —  American Men of Action
• Closing her eyes, she drifted into a fantasy: that the glossy wood interior of the ketch was the heart of some great complicated musical instrument and that she waited at its center while it played. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 01 - January 1994
• Fortified by the presence of Miss Smith, he pointed out the exact scene of the rescue without a tremor, and, when her father narrated the affair to the skipper, whom they found sitting on deck smoking a last pipe, listened undismayed to that astonished mariner's comments News of the mate's heroic conduct became general the next day, and work on the ketch was somewhat impeded in consequence. —  Short Cruises
• The ketch, a two-masted vessel carrying from fifteen to twenty tons, carried on most of the coasting traffic, and occasionally ventured on a foreign voyage. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth

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