hatches
plural of hatch
hatches
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hatch
• Thaches, chaseth, chetahs
Source: Wiktionary
Hatch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching.] Etym: [F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash.]
1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manneHatching. Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. Chapman. Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.] His weapon hatched in blood. Beau. & Fl.
Hatch, v. t. Etym: [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and orig. meaning, to produce under a hatch.
1. To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. Paley. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).
2. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.
Hatch, v. i.
Definition: To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg;
– said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
Hatch, n.
1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak.
3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Hatch, n. Etym: [OE. hacche, AS. hæc, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. häck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together. Cf. Heck, Hack a frame.]
1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak.
2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate. Ainsworth.
4. A bedstead. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
6. (Mining)
Definition: An opening into, or in search of, a mine. Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc.
– To batten down the hatches (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens.
– To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.
Hatch, v. t.
Definition: To close with a hatch or hatches. 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. Shak
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
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