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 a.: see CATCH- (after the vb.).
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 a.: see CATCH- (after the vb.).
