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ketch Noun a two-masted sailing ship [Middle English cache]
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| Well, las' Monday I 'uz pass'n by one o' dem places in fourth street whah deh sticks up runaway nigger bills, en he'ps to ketch 'em, en I seed my marster I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a blackbirding cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along. I got hurt a little, en couldn't swim fas', so I wuz a considable ways behine you towards de las'; when you landed I reck'ned I could ketch up wid you on de lan' 'dout havin' to shout at you, but when I see dat house I begin to go slow. |
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