hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hăch
ipa: /hæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: hatches
Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.
Senses: examples: text: Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
glosses: A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
glosses: A trapdoor.
examples: text: The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
text: A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment.
ref: 1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 415:
glosses: An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
examples: text: A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch.
ref: 1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 100:
glosses: A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
glosses: A gullet.
glosses: A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
examples: text: The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass.
ref: 1879, Richard Jeffries, Wild Life in a Southern County:
glosses: A floodgate; a sluice gate.
examples: text: It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A bedstead.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: after-hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: baby hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: batten down the hatches
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: booby-hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: booby hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: buttery hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: down the hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: escape hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchback
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchboat
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchless
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchlike
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchman
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchway
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchwise
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hatchwork
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: hot hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: serving hatch
sense: Terms derived from hatch (noun)
word: warm hatch