hutch /ˈhʌʧ/
箱,廚,籠,小屋(vt.)把…裝箱
Hutch v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hutted p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.] 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.
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. Mining 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.
Hutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hutched p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.]
1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] “She hutched the . . . ore.”
2. Mining To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
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hutch
n 1: a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small
animals
2: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut,
shack, shanty]