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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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Etymology of 'Hutch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hutch" Quotes from Famous Books

... some candy?" A cadaverous little boy had appeared in their aisle, chanting, "Candies, French mixed candies, popcorn, peanuts and candy." The orchestra entered, each man crawling out from an opening under the stage, hardly larger than the gate of a rabbit hutch. At every instant now the crowd increased; there were but few seats that were not taken. The waiters hurried up and down the aisles, their trays laden with beer glasses. A smell of cigar-smoke filled the ...

— McTeague • Frank Norris

... foot of the steep slope we came upon the little wooden hutch where, ordinarily, one may procure a guide (also rough socks to stretch over one's boots) for the passage of the glacier. Now, however, the shed was closed and tenantless; and we must e'en dispense with a ...

— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes

... come round. I've known them to do that sort of thing before—there are one or two down there," and he jerked his thumb in the direction where the twenty and five tame authors sat each like a rabbit in his little hutch and did hat-work by the yard, "who carried on like that. But they are quiet enough now—they don't show much spirit now. I know how to deal with that sort of thing—half-pay and a double tale of copy—that's the ticket. Why, that girl will be worth fifteen ...

— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard

... moment and decided favourably. But her tale of woe was not yet complete. "Mother's ill again," she announced gloomily. "I mustn't play band or nail the slats on the rabbits' hutch. Aunt Amy gave me my dinner on the back porch. I liked that. I wouldn't go in the house, not till you ...

— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... on the topmost bough, where four gaping yellow mouths were clamouring for food. In a corner, down a flight of steps, there was a pond where grew marsh marigolds, and irises, and forget-me-nots, and other water-loving plants. A pair of ducks lived here in a wooden hutch, and would come waddling up to be fed with bread, which the girls saved from breakfast for them. Great was the delight of the whole school when one morning a brood of seven small ducklings appeared on the water, each as yellow as a canary, and seemingly quite at home ...

— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil

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