/hʌt͡ʃ/
OriginFrom 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.
- 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[…]”
“In 1880, Punch commented that the London & South Western Railway directors must have been keen rabbit fanciers, "for the number of hutches scattered over their 'system' is enormous". Yet, "these hutch”
- 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.
- 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.
- slangThe 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.”
- transitiveTo hoard or lay up, in a chest.
“She hutched the all-worshipt ore.” — Comus
- transitiveTo wash (ore) in a box or jig.
- ambitransitiveTo move with a jerk; to hitch.
“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. […”
- A male given name.
- A surname.
Formshutches(plural) · hutches(present, singular, third-person) · hutching(participle, present) · hutched(participle, past) · hutched(past)