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The Meaning of hatch
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(v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
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(v. t.) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
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(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.
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(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.
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(v. i.) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
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(n.) The act of hatching.
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(n.) Development; disclosure; discovery.
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(n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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(n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
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(n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
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(n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
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(n.) A bedstead.
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(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.
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(n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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(v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches.
Homophones
hach
Rhymes
attach
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bache
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batch
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brach
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bratsch
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catch
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cratch
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detach
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dispatch
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drach
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flach
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fratch
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gach
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gatch
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hach
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krach
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lach
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lache
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latch
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latsch
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mache
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match
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matsch
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mismatch
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natch
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overmatch
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patch
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potlatch
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ratch
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reattach
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rematch
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scratch
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slatch
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smatch
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snatch
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stach
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tache
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tatsch
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thach
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thatch
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tkach
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unattach
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vlach