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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

... narrow for its length, bounded on the terrace side by a sharply sloping bank, some fifteen feet deep, and on the other by the precipice leading to the next terrace. At the far end of the ground stood the pavilion, and beside it a little ivy-covered rabbit-hutch for the scorers. Old Wrykynians always claimed that it was the prettiest school ground in England. It certainly had the finest view. From the verandah of the pavilion you could look ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

... man's soul, like a hound through the woodland, On through the tangle of trees and the green and the gold. Yes, for the senses are goads, but the lineage noble, Not for the warren or hutch to be cornered and sold, Then there is freedom and ease, and a dream that persuades one On, till the track quakes on black whence the death-lilies peer. So the bronzed shoulder, that sets to the crust of the boulder Heaving it up—as the mill-wheel that turns at the weir— Bring—? ...

— Perpetual Light • William Rose Benet

... impressed more than it would now. The Ball-room at "The Bull," in Rochester, affected him in much the same way; and there is a curious sensation in looking round us there, on its modest proportions—its little hutch of a gallery which would hold about half-a-dozen musicans, and the small contracted space at the top where the "swells" of the dockyard stood together. "Boz," as he himself once told me, took away ...

— Pickwickian Studies • Percy Fitzgerald

... you find that by some fortunate accident they really are done. Then the Princess had a truly good heart: She was always kind to her pets. She never slapped her hippopotamus when it broke her dolls in its playful gambols, and she never forgot to feed her rhinoceroses in their little hutch in the backyard. Her elephant was devoted to her, and sometimes Mary Ann made her nurse quite cross by smuggling the dear little thing up to bed with her and letting it go to sleep with its long trunk laid lovingly across her throat, ...

— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit

... 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

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