[…] 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 […]

Hanging was indeed the popular remedy for all criminal disorders. The legislator found patients for it, the judge prescribed it, and the Ketch administered it with the same callous and gallows indifference.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.

1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

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