Ketch, a broad, strongly-built vessel of two masts—viz. the main and mizzen, formerly much used for carrying mortars, and called a bomb-ketch.
Ketch
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 419
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Ketch, a broad, strongly-built vessel of two masts—viz. the main and mizzen, formerly much used for carrying mortars, and called a bomb-ketch.