Definition of "ketched" [ketched]

• Simple past tense and past participle of ketch. (verb)

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• ""You must lie very still," I continued, "and let us make you well and strong again, for you've made dear Sweetapple Cove now, after being nearly 'ketched' by those dreadful seas, and I know that our little ship is coming safely to port.""
• "She is a poor thing whose husband and two sons were "ketched" last year, as they say, by these dreadful seas, and some think that her brain is a little affected."
• ""I am afraid that the sea has 'ketched' me, and that I shall never make that cove again.""