Definition of "hutch"

hutch

/hʌt͡ʃ/

noun
plural hutches
1. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
2. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
  Quotations
  “No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”
  1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men‎, New York: Covici Friede, page 100
  To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled […]
  1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 16, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company
  In 1880, Punch commented that the London & South Western Railway directors must have been keen rabbit fanciers, "for the number of hutches scattered over their 'system' is enormous". Yet, "these hutches are not for rabbits, but for humans, and they are technically known as 'Country Stations'".
  2023 September 6, David Turner, “Best-kept stations: roots in railway's past”, in RAIL, number 991, page 54
3. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
4. A cabinet for storing dishes.
5. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
6. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
7. (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
8. (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
9. (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
10. A baker's kneading-trough.
verb
third-person singular simple present hutches, present participle hutching, simple past and past participle hutched
1. (transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  Quotations
  She hutched the all-worshipt ore.
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,
2. (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
3. (ambiintransitive) To move with a jerk; to hitch.
  Quotations
  And the mind was very disinclined to hutch out of the crevice and face what must be done. […] He hauled himself out of the crevice and the air was warm so that he undressed to trousers and sweater. […] He hutched himself back against a rock with his legs sprawled apart.
  1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin

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