Ketch

See also: ketch

English

Noun

Ketch (plural Ketches)

1. Synonym of Jack Ketch (“a public executioner”).
   • 1882, Thomas Hood, The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Serious, page 288:

     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.