Example sentences for: ketch

How can you use “ketch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What on most ranches in the Southwest is called a ketch (catch) rope is a reata in Mexican Spanish.

  • I wondered whether on British farms the common word for castrate was the same as here: cut . Presumably the other terms we had heard in use on the mesa, flank for `heave the roped calf onto the ground' and hogtie for `truss it up with a pickin' string ' while the well-trained roping horse keeps the ketch rope taut, are not used, as the practices are not, in Britain.

  • Be sure to walk around the reconstructed decks of the 17th-century Nonsuch ketch that pioneered Hudson Bay’s involvement in the fur trade.


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