Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who hatches; a contriver; a plotter.
  • noun A bird that hatches; also, any apparatus for hatching eggs, as a hatching-box or -trough; an incubator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.
  • noun One who contrives or originates; a plotter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who hatches (transitive senses)

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

hatch +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I agree with you, lets wait and see as what i have been hearing is everyone is jumping to the conclusion that indeed its a hatcher he will be using and not the scalpel he has said he would use.

    Think Progress » FLASHBACK: Obama Criticized Spending Freeze As ‘Using A Hatchet Where You Need A Scalpel’ 2010

  • Rather than someone simply taking refuge in the past because he's unable to face the present, Wilson is more in the tradition of an artist such as Plush: a hatcher of big ideas, and dreamer of big dreams.

    This week's new live music 2012

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    Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • A few more interesting Google search terms that have lead people to my site recently: shortest serving prime ministers - For which this blog appears in 4th place teri hatcher breasts - For which this blog appears in 8th place

    Googling (Update 3) Not a sheep 2008

  • | Reply meh did not read the above post by hatcher … heh

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Apeture Science Christmas 2007

  • Gale Harold, who plays the boyfriend of Teri hatcher has suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident.

    Gale Harold of 'Desperate Housewives' injured in motorcycle accident Sensation 2008

  • Gale Harold, who plays the boyfriend of Teri hatcher has suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident.

    Gale Harold of 'Desperate Housewives' injured in motorcycle accident Sensation 2008

  • It seems a family member of one of the suspects told Scotland Yard this stooge was hatching a plot from Pakistan and then the Pakis supposedly caught this plot-hatcher on the Afghan border.

    It's Velly British The Daily Growler 2006

  • Reply this theory seems plausible, the sad thing is, taht if it is true, that ABC will read this and change the planned ending to something along the lines of “lindsey lohan and terri hatcher saves everyone riding a magic flying marmoset”

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Lost theory that is probably true 2006

  • Talamir reckoned that the whole scheme had been hatched up to create a distraction at some pointand that the hatcher of said plot had gotten cold feet when his agent had been unmasked.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

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