hutch

name

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

noun

Etymology: 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.

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.””

   “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[…]”

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. 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.”

verb

Etymology: 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.

1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

   “She hutched the all-worshipt ore.”

2. To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
3. 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.”