hatch
noun
- type of door, typically in a floor or ceiling
verb
- (cause to) come to fruition, ripeness
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/
name
Etymology: English surname from the root of hatch (“gate”).
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.
- The act of hatching.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
“There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination”
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
“These pullets are from an April hatch.”
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
“a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104, The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.”
“The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches, but it's also useful for midge hatches.”
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
“hatch, match, and dispatch”
verb
Etymology: From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.
- To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
“Those hatching strokes of the pencil.”
“Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.”
- To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
“His weapon hatch'd in blood.”