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hutch

/hʌt͡ʃ/

hutch noun: a box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.

Noun

hutch (plural hutches)

  1. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
  2. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
    • “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, →OCLC
  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. The case of a flour bolt.
  8. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  9. A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
  10. A baker's kneading-trough.
  11. (slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
  12. An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
    • There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 35

Verb

hutch (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.
    • She hutched the all-worshipt ore.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...
  2. (transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
  3. (ambitransitive) To move with a jerk; to hitch.
    • 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

Proper noun capitalized: Hutch

Hutch

  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname.

hutch meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

hutch in Tamil

முயல் கூண்டு

hutch in Telugu

హచ్

hutch in Malayalam

മുയൽക്കൂട്, പണപ്പെട്ടി, കല്ക്കരിവണ്ടി

hutch in Kannada

ತೊಟ್ಟಿ, ಗೂಡು

Forms of hutch

Noun
pluralhutches
Verb
third-person singular presenthutches
present participlehutching
past participlehutched
pasthutched

Plural of hutch: hutches

Origin of hutch

From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut. (cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.

Words formed from hutch

Words that rhyme with hutch

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Questions about hutch

What does hutch mean?
Hutch means a box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
What is hutch in Tamil?
Hutch in Tamil is முயல் கூண்டு. See Hutch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hutch?
Hutch can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hutch?
Hutch is pronounced /hʌt͡ʃ/.
What is the plural of hutch?
The plural of hutch is hutches.

Words near hutch in the dictionary

  1. hut
  2. hut circle
  3. hut circles
  4. hut tax
  5. hut taxes
  6. hutch
  7. hutch up
  8. Hutchcraft
  9. Hutchcrafts
  10. Hutchcroft
  11. hutched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hutch (page history and authors); Hutch (page history and authors); hutch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hutch (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hutch (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hutch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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