hutch

Noun
Synonyms: hovelhutshackshanty

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
  2. small crude shelter used as a dwellingSynonyms: hovelhutshackshanty
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hutch \Hutch\, n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.A measure of two Winchester bushels. [1913 Webster]

3.(Mining) The case of a flour bolt. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc. [1913 Webster]

Hutch \Hutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.]

1.To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2.(Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig. [1913 Webster]

Hutch \Hutch\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.] To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. [1913 Webster]

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]

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