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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hutch (plural hutches)
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
- 1960, Harper Lee, chapter 16, in To Kill a Mockingbird:
- 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.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- 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.
Translations[edit]
cage or coop for small animals
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cabinet to be placed on top of a desk
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(mining) A car on low wheels
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Verb[edit]
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.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
- She hutched the all-worshipt ore.
- (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
- (intransitive) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
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.- 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin
- And the mind was very disinclined to hutch out of the crevice and face what must be done. […] He hauled himself out of the crevice and the air was warm so that he undressed to trousers and sweater. […] He hutched himself back against a rock with his legs sprawled apart.
- 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin
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