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hutch

[ huhch ]

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noun

a pen or enclosed coop for small animals:
rabbit hutch.
Synonyms: cote, enclosure, cage
a chest, cupboard, bin, etc., for storage.
any of various chestlike cabinets, raised on legs and having doors or drawers in front, sometimes with open shelves above.
a small cottage, hut, or cabin.
a baker's kneading trough.

hutch

/ hʌtʃ /

noun

a cage, usually of wood and wire mesh, for small animals
informal.
a small house
a cart for carrying ore
a trough, esp one used for kneading dough or (in mining) for washing ore

verb

tr to store or keep in or as if in a hutch

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hutch¹

1275–1325; Middle English hucche, variant of whucce, Old English hwicce chest; not akin to Old French huge, huche ( ch form apparently by contamination with English word)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hutch¹

C14 hucche, from Old French huche, from Medieval Latin hutica, of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

Hutch is an old word for chest or coffer, chiefly used now in the compound ‘rabbit-hutch.’

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And I suppose they've got a rabbit hutch, and a monkey, and some white mice?

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I sat by the hutch and studied the interesting group till I was so stiff with cold that I could hardly walk back to my tent.

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There was her bow standing in a nook beside the hutch, and the quiver of arrows hanging on the wall above it.

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At the foot of the latter stood the huge "hutch," or chest, in which were deposited for safety the family plate and valuables.

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