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Definition hatch

Etymology 1

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæ?, from Proto-Germanic *hakj? (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *hagj? ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
2. A trapdoor.
3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
6. (slang) A gullet.
7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
9. (Scotland) A bedstead.
10. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hacchen ‘to propagate’, from Old English hæ??an, ?ha??ian (“to peck out; hatch”), cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
2. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
3. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
4. (transitive) To devise.

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery.
3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
4. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
5. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

Etymology 3

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hak?n, *hakk?n, from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

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