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Hatch   /hætʃ/   Listen
Hatch

noun
1.
The production of young from an egg.  Synonym: hatching.
2.
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.  Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching.
3.
A movable barrier covering a hatchway.
verb
(past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)
1.
Emerge from the eggs.
2.
Devise or invent.  Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up.  "No-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
3.
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.
4.
Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper.
5.
Sit on (eggs).  Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate.  "The female covers the eggs"



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"Hatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."—Shakspeare, Hamlet, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 • Various
... introduced them into this commodious apartment, courteously asked Wayland, whose generosity he had experienced, whether he could do anything further for his service. Upon receiving a gentle hint that some refreshment would not be unacceptable, he presently conveyed the smith to the buttery-hatch, where dressed provisions of all sorts were distributed, with hospitable profusion, to all who asked for them. Wayland was readily supplied with some light provisions, such as he thought would best suit the faded appetite of the lady, and did not omit the opportunity of himself making a hasty ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... thousands of good people all over the country who prayed that this philanthropist might be restored to wealth. There was one man in Wall Street at this time who I said could not fail. He was Mr. A.S. Hatch, President of the New York Stock Exchange. He had given large sums of money to Christian work, and was personally ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... sixteen bell buttons on the corner of the table; my proportions at that end of me were just right to enable me to cover the whole of that nest, and that is how I came to hatch out those ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... hungry wild beasts. The Ariadne answered her helm like a tender-mouthed colt, but she was not quick enough for the enormous sea which the next moment broke on her starboard quarter. The decks were deluged with water, which must have swamped the ship had not every hatch been securely battened; the starboard quarter-boat was crushed like an egg-shell, and swept from her davits with the wreck of the bulwarks, which were stove in like a cigar-box; the masts bent like reeds and quivered to the keelson, and the strong mizzen ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various


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