HUTCH

hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty

(noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling

hutch

(noun) a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

hutch (plural hutches)

A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc.

A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.

A measure of two Winchester bushels.

(mining) The case of a flour bolt.

(mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

(mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.

A baker's kneading-trough.

Verb

hutch (third-person singular simple present hutches, present participle hutching, simple past and past participle hutched)

(transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

(mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

(intransitive)

Proper noun

Hutch

A male given name

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary

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Hutch, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.]

Definition: To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

Hutch, n. Etym: [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]

1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.

3. (Mining)

Definition: The case of a flour bolt.

4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.

Hutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.]

1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

2. (Mining)

Definition: To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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