Hutch /(?)/

Hutch

v. t. & i.

imp. & p. p. Hutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting

  1. To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
    The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.

Hutch

n.
  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. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  3. The case of a flour bolt. (Mining)
  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.

Hutch

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Hutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching

  1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.]
  2. To wash (ore) in a box or jig. (Mining)