Hutch
[hʌtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals.
Checked by Adelaide--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
(n.) The case of a flour bolt.
(n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
(n.) A jig for washing ore.
(v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
(v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Chest, coffer, bin.[2]. Trap (as for rabbits).[3]. (Mining.) Box (for coal).
Checked by Ellen
Definition
n. a box a chest: a coop for rabbits: a baker's kneading-trough: a trough used with some ore-dressing machines: a low wagon in which coal is drawn up out of the pit.—v.i. (Milt.) to hoard up.
Typist: Melba
Examples
- The rabbit exploded in a wild rush round the hutch. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They unlocked the door of the hutch. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The hermit only replied by a grin; and returning to the hutch, he produced a leathern bottle, which might contain about four quarts. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The man leaned over and pulled up the front of a kind of hutch in the corner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The two girls went to the hutch that stood in a corner, and looked at the great black-and-white rabbit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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