Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pen or coop for small animals, especially rabbits.
- noun A cupboard with drawers for storage and usually open shelves on top, often used for dishes.
- noun A chest or bin for storage.
- noun A hut.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shrug.
- To hoard or lay up, as in a chest.
- In mining, to wash, as ore, in a tub or hutch.
- noun A chest, box, coffer, bin, or other receptacle in which things may be stored: as, a grain-hutch.
- noun A bakers' kneading-trough.
- noun A box or trough used in connection with certain ore-dressing machines.
- noun A low-wheeled wagon in which coal is drawn up out of the pit.
- noun As a measure: A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- noun In Renfrewshire, Scotland, two hundred-weight of pyrites.
- noun The casing of a flourbolt.
- noun A box, coop, or pen in which a (small) animal is confined: as, a rabbit-hutch.
- noun A fisherman's shanty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To place in huts; to live in huts.
- transitive verb rare To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
- transitive verb (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
- noun A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept
- noun A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- noun (Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- noun A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- noun A jig for washing ore.
- noun etc. See under
Bolting , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cage in which arabbit or rabbits are kept. - noun A piece of
furniture in which items may bedisplayed - verb transitive To
hoard orlay up , in achest . - verb mining, transitive To
wash (ore) in abox orjig .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
- noun small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Sometimes when I'm watching a home design show, I hear them use the word hutch to describe a cabinet-type piece of furniture that goes in a kitchen or living room.
I seen mj 2007
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Sometimes when I'm watching a home design show, I hear them use the word hutch to describe a cabinet-type piece of furniture that goes in a kitchen or living room.
Hutch mj 2007
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And the room features a closet that was converted into a built-in hutch (of sorts); this serves as the command center for our family-centered learning project, housing such tools as the microscope, globes, atlases, timelines, binoculars, art supplies, crafts, etc.
The library M-mv 2004
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And the room features a closet that was converted into a built-in hutch (of sorts); this serves as the command center for our family-centered learning project, housing such tools as the microscope, globes, atlases, timelines, binoculars, art supplies, crafts, etc.
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Each hutch is generally eighteen inches high, and about three feet wide.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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On the table in the window of his attic study - the place that he calls his "hutch" - there are three piles of poetry books: he wants to pass on good first editions of his life's work to his children.
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Thanks to the efforts of Miss Rio and her beautiful back up geek squad and Stark and hutch aka Sagem and JARED.
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Thanks to the efforts of Miss Rio and her beautiful back up geek squad and Stark and hutch aka Sagem and JARED.
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Thanks to the efforts of Miss Rio and her beautiful back up geek squad and Stark and hutch aka Sagem and JARED.
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Thanks to the efforts of Miss Rio and her beautiful back up geek squad and Stark and hutch aka Sagem and JARED.
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