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hatcher|ˈhætʃə(r)|
[f. hatch v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who or that which hatches (eggs).
1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 381 The Oven producing..three or foure hundred living Chickens..the Hatcher or Curator, is onely Recompensed according to the living numbers. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. viii. (1737) 30 A Curse light on the Hatcher of the ill Bird. 1838Tait's Mag. V. 600 Those diligent hatchers who cackle so much and sit so little.
b. spec. A contrivance in which eggs are hatched; an incubator.
1884Day in Fisheries Exhib. Lit. II. 84 Chester's semi⁓rotating hatcher. 1888Lloyd Pryce Pheasant Rearing 37 Take them [the eggs] from under the hen, and place them in the drawer of the hatcher.
2. fig. A contriver, deviser, plotter, covert or clandestine producer.
1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. vii. (1591) 5 The crime whereof themselves were the hatchers. 1647Trapp Comm. Eph. v. 3 He found theaters to be the very hatchers of all wickednesse. 1704Swift T. Tub ix, A great hatcher and breeder of business. 1883Sir T. Martin Ld. Lyndhurst v. 135 His informant, as the hatchers of anecdotes too often are, was under a delusion. |