Hutch

Quick meaning: Hutch is a noun meaning A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.

Meaning

A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.

More Meanings

1. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
2. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
3. A cabinet for storing dishes.
4. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
5. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
6. (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
7. (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

Example Sentences

She hutched the all-worshipt ore.

“No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”

There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.

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[…]

Word Forms

• hutches
• hutching
• hutched

Synonyms for hutch

Depending on context, synonyms include hovel, shack, shanty, hut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hovel, hut, shack, shanty, stake, pyre.

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