Catch

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html

CATCH, sb.2 Lin. Wor. Nrf. Sus. Written ketch Sus. [katʃ, ketʃ.] A small river-boat, used in inland navigation; also, a boat used for fishing and coast work. Lin. Skinner (1671); They are known as ‘Trent Catches,’ and are specially constructed for the shallows in that river, being broad and shallow as well as long, Brooke Tracts, 5; Streatfeild Lin. and Danes (1884) 320. n.Lin.1 Tooke a Scottish barke, and a Dover barke, and a pram or hute and a catch, Husband Coll. of Orders (1643) II. 261. s.Wor. A vessel with two masts, formerly used on the Severn (H.K.). Nrf. Miller & Skertchly Fenland (1878) iv. Sus. Common: used for fishing and coast work (E.E.S.); (F.E.S.) Hence Catchman, sb. the master or owner of a ‘catch.’ n.Lin.1 [Catch, a kind of swift-sailing sea-vessel, lesser than a hoy, and so built that it will endure any sea whatsoever, Phillips (1706).]