hutch
hutch is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- 3.(Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- 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.
- 5.To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.
- 6.(Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is 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 called?
- What is (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 called?
- What is to hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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