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hatcher

noun

Etymology

From hatch + -er.

  1. derived from *hakkōną✻
  2. derived from *hakōn✻
  3. derived from hacher
  4. derived from hacher
  5. suffixed as hatcher — “hatch + er”

Definitions

  1. One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.

    • I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.

  2. Something that hatches, such as a bird or the egg from which it hatches.

    • Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.
    • Under these conditions the late-hatching strategy quickly went extinct, usually within 10 years. With no difference in survivorship between hatching early and late, the early hatchers that survive each produce 20 offspring […]

  3. A surname.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA