Definitions for the word "hatch" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The act of hatching.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
A bedstead.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v. t.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
1 opening in a wall between a kitchen and dining-room for serving food. 2 opening or door in an aircraft etc. 3 a = *hatchway. B cover for this. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
17. v.
1 a (often foll. By out) (of a young bird or fish etc.) Emerge from the egg. B (of an egg) produce a young animal. 2 incubate (an egg). 3 (also foll. By up) devise (a plot etc.). n. 1 act of hatching. 2 brood hatched. [earlier hacche, from germanic]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
18. v.
Mark with close parallel lines. hatching n. [french hacher: related to *hash1]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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