Word Direct Answers

What does "hutch" mean?

Hutch: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  2. 3.(Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
  3. 4.(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.
  4. 5.To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.
  5. 6.(Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

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