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Hatch

//hæt͡ʃ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
"Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground."
2
The act of hatching.
3
a movable barrier covering a hatchway wordnet
4
A trapdoor.
5
Development; disclosure; discovery. figuratively
"There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination"

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6
a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open wordnet
7
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
"The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch."
8
A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
"These pullets are from an April hatch."
9
shading consisting of multiple crossing lines wordnet
10
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
"A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch."
11
The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity. often
"a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104, The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago."
12
the production of young from an egg wordnet
13
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
14
A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper). informal
"hatch, match, and dispatch"
15
A gullet. slang
16
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
17
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
"The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass."
18
A bedstead. Scotland
"It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame"
19
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Verb

1
To close with a hatch or hatches. transitive
"'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched."
2
To emerge from an egg. intransitive
"These three chicks hatched yesterday morning."
3
To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch). transitive
"Those hatching strokes of the pencil."
4
sit on (eggs) wordnet
5
To break open when a young animal emerges from it. intransitive
"She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching."

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To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. obsolete, transitive
"His weapon hatch'd in blood."
7
emerge from the eggs wordnet
8
To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch. transitive
"I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest."
9
draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper wordnet
10
To devise (a plot or scheme). transitive
"World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years."
11
devise or invent wordnet
12
inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Etymology 6

English surname from the root of hatch (“gate”).

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