| 单词 | master ketch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMaster Ketch (A generic name for) an executioner or hangman. Also Master Ketch, Mr. Ketch. Cf. Jack Ketch n.The ‘New Catch’ referred to in quot. 1685 is Pascha Rose, who briefly replaced Jack Ketch as the common executioner in London in 1685–6. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman boiec1320 hangman1393 hangerc1430 lockman1488 burrioc1540 bourreauc1550 burriourc1550 derrickc1600 passport-maker1602 topman1607 derrick-jastro?1609 verdugo1616 windpipe-stretcher1617 Gregorya1658 locksman1682 Ketch1685 Jack Ketch1696 finisher of the law1708 topsman1825 scrag-boy1843 scragger1897 1685 Pleasant Disc. Dial. between Old & New Jack Catch (single sheet) Old Catch, Ha—my Old Friend,..how fares it with thee? New Catch, But very indifferent. 1706 Wooden World Diss. (1708) 80 For a running Noose, this new Ketch is but a Fool to him. 1739 M. Browne Poems 184 Where Ruffian Ketch..Shews himself skill'd to rear a Scholar, Rope-Dances teaching—by the Collar. 1792 J. Croft Scrapeana 164 Just as Mr. Ketch was about to noose him, poor Monsieur..exclaimed..,—Ah! Misericorde! 1824 Nic-nac 17 Apr. 168/1 He waited to see if he could bargain with Maister Ketsch for the two gentlemen's clothes. 1847 All's Delusion iv. iii. 99 I have been a candidate for Ketch's office, have I, Mr. Blandish? 1912 E. Pugh City of World x. 276 Their fathers was in it, and their grand-dads..that as like as not pratted up the dancers of a gallows to be introduced to Death by Mr. Ketch. < as lemmas |
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