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Pronunciation : Hutch
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.

t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Hutch
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]
Definition : 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. (Mining)

Defn: The case of a flour bolt.

4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Hutch
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

2. (Mining)

Defn: To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

t. [imp. & p. p. Hutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913