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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



... 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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