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catched verb Past tense and past participle of catch. [OED dates this usage from the 16th century]
1862 Patton CW Letters (Sept 8) you could not of catched us if you had a tride. 1937 Hall Coll (Cades Cove TN) I didn't want to be catched in the rain an' no shelter. 1939 Hall Coll (Big Bend NC) He'd kill Carl Miller if he ever catched him. 1953 Atwood Verbs East US 8 The form cotch /k t/ occurs a few times around Chesapeake Bay and in w. N.C. and in s. W.Va. ... Catched ... becomes considerably more common in the South and South Midland, occurring in nearly half the communities investigated in W.Va. and N.C. 1969 GSMNP-38:148 Where he catched that sheep you could hear them talk about that ridge today. 1972 AOHP/ALC-298 Now Chris hasn’t catched, caught this one down here. 1978 Reese Speech NE Tenn 185 There’s people come in there and catched them snakes. 2008 Rosie Hicks 1 We went with him, catched some minners to put on the hook for him to fish.