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hutch

[huhch]
–noun
1. a pen or enclosed coop for small animals: rabbit hutch.
2. a chest, cupboard, bin, etc., for storage.
3. any of various chestlike cabinets, raised on legs and having doors or drawers in front, sometimes with open shelves above.
4. a small cottage, hut, or cabin.
5. a baker's kneading trough.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME hucche, var. of whucce, OE hwicce chest; not akin to OF huge, huche (ch form appar. by contamination with English word)


1. cage, enclosure, cote.
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hutch   (hŭch)   
n.  
  1. A pen or coop for small animals, especially rabbits.

  2. A cupboard with drawers for storage and usually open shelves on top, often used for dishes.

  3. A chest or bin for storage.

  4. A hut.


[Middle English huche, chest, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hūtica, possibly of Germanic origin.]
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Word Origin & History

hutch 
1303, "storage chest" (also applied to the biblical "ark of God"), from O.Fr. huche, from M.L. hutica "chest," of uncertain origin. Sense of "cupboard for food or dishes" first recorded 1671; that of "box-like pen for an animal" is from 1607.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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