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Hatch   /hætʃ/   Listen
noun
Hatch  n.  
1.
The act of hatching.
2.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
3.
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.



Hatch  n.  
1.
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. "In at the window, or else o'er the hatch."
2.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3.
A flood gate; a sluice gate.
4.
A bedstead. (Scot.)
5.
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
6.
(Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc.
To batten down the hatches (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens.
To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.



verb
Hatch  v. t.  (past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)  
1.
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. "Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched." "Those hatching strokes of the pencil."
2.
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. (Obs.) "His weapon hatched in blood."



Hatch  v. t.  
1.
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not." "For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they (the husbandmen) bring life into them and hatch them."
2.
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. "Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness."



Hatch  v. t.  To close with a hatch or hatches. "'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched."



Hatch  v. i.  To produce young; said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.






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"Hatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... they could handle. She was sixty feet over all, and the cross beams of her crown deck had not been weakened by deck-houses. The only breaks—and no beams had been cut for them—were the main cabin skylight and companionway, the booby hatch for'ard over the tiny forecastle, and the small hatch aft that let ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London

... beyond the skylight which, except a feeble side window, was its only light in the daytime, was a door that led past a small lavatory and up half a dozen narrow steps to the kitchen, one of the strangest and grimmest old kitchens you ever saw. Across a mighty hatch, thronged with dishes, you looked into it and beheld there the white-jacketed man-cook, served by his two robust and red-armed kitchen maids. For you they were preparing chops, pork chops in winter, lamb chops in spring, mutton chops always, and steaks and sausages, and kidneys ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson

... wearied of these pleasures I'd go hunt for hidden treasures— In no ordinary way, Pirates' luggers I'd waylay; Board them from my sinking dory, Wade through decks of gore and glory, Drive the fiends, with blazing matchlock, Down below, and snap the hatch-lock. ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... 1769. He had snatched an early marriage, which did not prove happy. He had a little son, whom he was educating upon the principles set forth in Rousseau's "Emile," and a daughter Maria, who was born on the 1st of January, 1767. He was then living at Hare Hatch, near Maidenhead. In March, 1773, his first wife died after giving birth to a daughter named Anna. In July, 1773, he married again, Honora Sneyd, and went to live in Ireland, taking with him his daughter ...
— Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales • Maria Edgeworth

... territorial work of Philip Augustus was well nigh completed; but his wars were not over. John Lackland, when worsted, kicked against the pricks, and was incessantly hankering, in his antagonism to the King of France, after hostile alliances and local conspiracies easy to hatch amongst certain feudal lords discontented with their suzerain. John was on intimate terms with his nephew, Otho IV., Emperor of Germany and the foe of Philip Augustus, who had supported against him Frederick ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot


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