hutch
nounEtymology
From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut. (cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.
Definitions
A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
- “No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”
- To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled[…]
A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
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A cabinet for storing dishes.
A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
A measure of two Winchester bushels.
The case of a flour bolt.
A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
A baker's kneading-trough.
The pavilion or dressing room.
An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.
To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
- She hutched the all-worshipt ore.
To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
To move with a jerk
To move with a jerk; to hitch.
A male given name.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
booby hutch, hutchlike, Morant hutch, rabbit hutch, hutch up
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA