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Definition of Hatch
Pronunciation: hăch | v. t. | 1. | To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. | | 2. | To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. | | 1. | To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. | | 2. | To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. | | v. i. | 1. | To produce young; - said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; - said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. | | n. | 1. | The act of hatching. | | 2. | Development; disclosure; discovery. | | 3. | The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. | | 1. | A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. | | 2. | A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. | | 3. | A flood gate; a sluice gate. | | 4. | A bedstead. | | 5. | An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening. | | 6. | (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. | | v. t. | 1. | To close with a hatch or hatches. |
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