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Hatch   /hætʃ/   Listen
Hatch

noun
1.
The production of young from an egg.  Synonym: hatching.
2.
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.  Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching.
3.
A movable barrier covering a hatchway.
verb
(past & past part. hatched; pres. part. hatching)
1.
Emerge from the eggs.
2.
Devise or invent.  Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up.  "No-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
3.
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.
4.
Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper.
5.
Sit on (eggs).  Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate.  "The female covers the eggs"



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"Hatch" Quotes from Famous Books



... station of Three Rivers, which is located on the left bank of the St. Lawrence, on Friday evening, and moved our canoe into quiet waters near the entrance of Lake of St. Peter. Rain squalls kept us close under our hatch-cloth till eleven o'clock A. M. on Saturday, when, the wind being fair, we determined to make an attempt to reach Sorel, which would afford us ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop
... district or a practical description of the methods of working without maps and plans and a number of details unsuitable to this book; so I will mention merely a few salient facts, referring the curious reader to the elaborate treatise of Messrs. Hatch and Chalmers ...
— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce
... may lay severall egges to hatch; and by breaking them at severall ages you may distinctly observe every hourely mutation in them, if you please. The first will bee, that on one side you shall find a great resplendent clearnesse in the white. After a while, a little spott of red ...
— Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England - Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 • Charles W. Bodemer
... yielded wine for the cup have grown upon a thorn. If like produces like, you cannot account for Christ and Christianity by anything short of the belief in His Divine mission. Serpents' eggs do not hatch out into doves. This Man, when He claimed to be God's Son and the world's Saviour, was no brain-sick enthusiast; and the results show that the Gospel which His followers proclaim rests upon ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... morning by a banging on the hatch of his bubble. It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been ...
— The Planet with No Nightmare • Jim Harmon


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