D defs.my
Entry 7 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Hutch

/hŭch/ · IPA /hʌt͡ʃ/
01 v. t. & i. To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
imp. & p. p. Hutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting
  1. 1.
    To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
    “The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.” W. Irving.
02 n. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
  1. 1.
    A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
  2. 2.
    A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  3. 3.
    The case of a flour bolt.(Mining)
  4. 4.
    A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.(Mining)
Phrases & compounds
Bolting hutch — See under Bolting, etc.
03 v. t. To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
imp. & p. p. Hutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching
  1. 1.
    To hoard or lay up, in a chest.[R.]
  2. 2.
    To wash (ore) in a box or jig.(Mining)