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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
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
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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