From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hutch \Hutch\, n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL.
hutica.]
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.
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2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
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3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
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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.
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{Bolting hutch}, {Booby hutch}, etc. See under {Bolting},
etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hutch \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." --Milton.
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2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hutch \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.
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The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. --W.
Irving.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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},
{hutch}, {shack}, {shanty}]
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