different between sloop vs ketch

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sloep.

Pronunciation

• enPR: slo?op, IPA^(key): /slu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

sloop (plural sloops)

1. (nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,

     I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
2. (military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
3. (military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ????? (?ulup)
• ? Catalan: sloop
• ? Czech: šalupa
• ? Danish: slup
• ? Estonian: luup
• ? Faroese: slupp
• ? Finnish: sluuppi
• ? French: sloop
• ? German: Sloop, Slup, Schlup
• ? Icelandic: slúppa
• ? Italian: sloop
• ? Norwegian: slupp
• ? Polish: slup
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ???? (slup)
• ? Slovene: šalupa
• ? Swedish: slup
• ? Thai: ???? (sà-lùp)

Translations

Anagrams

• Loops, OOPLs, loops, polos, pools, spool

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slo?p/
• Hyphenation: sloop
• Rhymes: -o?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch slope, from Old Dutch *sl?pa, from Proto-Germanic *slaup?.

Noun

sloop f or n (plural slopen, diminutive sloopje n)

1. pillowcase, pillowslip

Derived terms

• kussensloop

Etymology 2

From slopen.

Noun

sloop m (uncountable)

1. demolition

Verb

sloop

1. singular past indicative of sluipen
2. first-person singular present indicative of slopen
3. imperative of slopen

Anagrams

• loops, los op, oplos, Pools

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t?/

• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /?/, compare the pronunciation /k?t?/ of catch.

Noun

ketch (plural ketches)

1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al., p. 313,^[1]

     […] to finish her new Habit or Appearance, and make her Change compleat, he ordered her Sails to be alter’d; and as she sailed before with a Half-Sprit, like a Yacht, she sailed now with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch; so that, in a Word, she was a perfect Cheat […]

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: kits

See also

• yawl.

Further reading

• ketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See catch.

Verb

ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)

1. Pronunciation spelling of catch.
   • 1815, D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England, I. 21,

     I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.

   • 1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, II. IV. xv., page 287

     Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?

   • 1883 [see KNUCK 2].
   • 1916, W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches 18

     You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.

   • 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184

     If so you gonna ketch hell.

   • 1967, Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 103/1

     You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?

   • 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445

     Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.

Etymology 3

From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

Verb

ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)

1. (rare) To hang.
   • 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14

     'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.

   • n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18

     Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.

   • 1840, Fraser's Mag., XXI. 210

     Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.

   • 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),

     I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

Noun

ketch (plural ketches)

1. A hangman.