hutch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
  2. noun small crude shelter used as a dwelling
    hut; shack; hovel; shanty.

WordNet

Hutch transitive verb & intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Hutted ; present participle & verbal noun Hutting
Definitions
  1. 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 noun
Etymology
OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.
Definitions
  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) 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.
Hutch transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Hutched ; present participle & verbal noun Hutching
Definitions
  1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. R. "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.
  2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

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