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catched en · VERB
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(dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, obsolete, participle, past, rare) simple past and past participle of catch
Their fleſh is red, and they are catched with great hooks made faſt to pieces of wire.
1812, John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels:I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:1867: Clarence M. Leumane, the Lambton Worm song
One Sunda morn young Lambton went
A-fishing in the Wear;
An' catched a fish upon he's heuk
He thowt leuk't vary queer
Synonyms
caught