Meanings
- dialectalnonstandardobsoleteparticiplepastraresimple past and past participle of catch
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
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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 TravelsI 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, […], →OCLCSynonyms: caught
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