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noun

Hutch n.

A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

A measure of two Winchester bushels.

(Mining) The case of a flour bolt.

(Mining)

(a)

A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

(b)

A jig for washing ore.

Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.

verb

Hutch v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. hutted; pres. part. hutting) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. "The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown."

Hutch v. t. (past & past part. hutched; pres. part. hutching)

To hoard or lay up, in a chest. (R.) "She hutched the... ore."

(Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hutch" Quotes from Famous Books

... the log hut where he had spent the night, he found a sort of cupboard—something like a rabbit-hutch. And this cupboard contained—oh, joyful discovery!—not gold or gems, nor any such useless glittering lumber, but something far more precious to these weary mariners—two bottles of brandy and a chest of tea. Perhaps a former sojourner on the island had placed them ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... writing what was deemed blasphemous, reviled magistrates and ministers, and disturbed religious assemblies; and that the tendency of their opinions and practices was to the subversion of the commonwealth in the period of its infancy."—Holmes' Am. Annals. Hutch. ...

— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... and wished him good-night. Having shut the door of his cell, he placed the torch in a candlestick made of wood, and looked around his sleeping apartment, the furniture of which was of the most simple kind. It consisted of a rude wooden stool, and still ruder hutch or bed-frame, stuffed with clean straw, and accommodated with two or three sheepskins by ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... husband, for all his serious manner, had a real boy's love of a lark, and he aided and abetted her in all sorts of whimsical devices. They owned a dog who was only less dear than the baby, a cat only less dear than the dog, a parrot whose education required constant supervision, and a hutch of ring-doves whose melancholy little "whuddering" coos were the delight of Rose the less. The house seemed astir with young life all over. The only elderly thing in it was the cook, who had the reputation of a dreadful temper; only, unfortunately, ...

— What Katy Did Next • Susan Coolidge

... stout men of Wethermel from shut-bed and hutch, and were presently armed, and Osberne was in his byrny and steel hood straightway, his bow in his hand and his quiver at ...

— The Sundering Flood • William Morris

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