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▪ I. hutch, n.|hʌtʃ|
Forms: 4–6 huche, (4 houche, 4–5 hucch(e, hoche, 5 husche, huch), 5–7 hutche, (6 hotche), 5– hutch.
[ME. huche, hucche, a. F. huche (13th c. in Littré; also huge 12–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.):—med.L. hūtica (‘cista vulgo Hutica dicta’, 11th c. in Du Cange): ulterior etymology obscure, referred by some to Ger. hut, OHG. huota care, keeping, hüten to watch, guard (see heed). In ME., hucche ran together more or less with whucche, whicche:—OE. hwicce in same sense: see whitch n.]
1. a. A chest or coffer, in which things are stored.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 6230 To ley hyt vp..Oþer yn cofre, oþer yn hucche. c1440Promp. Parv. 242/1 Hoche, or whyche (S. husch, H., P., hoche, hutche), cista, archa. 1455Paston Lett. No. 257 I. 351 His menye robbe his chambre, and ryfled his huches. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. cv. (W. de W.), Leues of the Lauri tree of Cedres and of Cipresse..put amonge clothes in hutches [Bodl. MS. whucches] saue the clothes..fro corrupcyon and etynge of moughtes. 1536Rem. Sedition 22 a, To gyue him money out of the comune hutche, to bye hym botis and showes. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 85 a, An old Vsurer..rakes vp thirty or forty thousande pounds together in a hutch. 1642J. Langton in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) V. 48 Some money was founde..hidd in the hutches of Otmeale. 1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 5 From the Cistern, it [the malt] is put into a square Hutch or Couch, where it must lie thirty Hours. 1789Brand Hist. Newcastle I. 421 note, Amongst the writings in the town's hutch. 1872Riley in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 341/2 The various documents..from the various lockers, and the ancient hutch, or chest in which they are preserved.
fig.1585Abp. Sandys Serm. xiv. §28 All knowledge is shut vp..in the hutch of his breast.
†b. Applied to the ‘ark of God’. Obs.
c1315Shoreham 51 Ine the ealde lawe beren hy The hoche of holy crefte. a1340Hampole Psalter cxxxi. 8 Þou & þe huche of þi halighynge. c1400Mandeville (1839) viii. 85 That Arke or Hucche, with the Relikes, Tytus ledde with hym to Rome.
2. a. A box or box-like pen or ‘house’ in which an animal is confined, as a rabbit-hutch.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 171 These Ferrets are kept in little hutches, in houses. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isls 139 They retreat, as the Conies do into their Clappers or Hutches. 1803J. Kenny Society 152 A rabbit who had all his life been pent within a hutch. 1879J. Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 70/2 Immediately the calf is born, it is removed to a suitable hutch or crib.
b. A small confined place or compartment occupied by a human being; applied contemptuously to a hut or cabin, or humorously to a small house.
1607Topsell Four-f Beasts (1658) 372 In a very spacious field there are little hutches built of that height as a man may stand upright in them: every one of these is shut with a little gate. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. viii, I cannot express what a satisfaction it was to me to come into my old hutch. 1880Kinglake Crimea VI. vi. 140 The French army..mainly used the ‘tente d'abri’, a low canvas hutch which was a miserable substitute for the ordinary tent. 1893Westm. Gaz. 4 July 5/1 It is probably cheaper to have such a private ‘hutch’ than to pay for five or six seats in the legitimate stands.
3. Technical.
a. A salmon coop, crib, or cruive.
b. Short for bolting-hutch (see bolting vbl. n.1 3).
c. A kneading trough.
d. A box trap.
e. A box for washing ore.
f. A box-like carriage, wagon, truck, etc., used for transport purposes in agriculture, mining, etc.
g. As a measure: see quots.
a.1602Carew Cornwall 28 b, The Sammons principall accesse is betweene Michaelmas and Christmas..The..more profitable meanes of their taking, is by hutches.
b.1619B. Jonson Pleas. reconciled to Virtue, The plough and the flail, the mill and the hopper, The hutch and the boulter, the furnace and copper. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Hutch..2. (Milling.) The case of a flour bolt.
c.1658tr. Porta's Nat. Mag. iv. xix. 146 The next day cast it [dough] into a Hutch, and adde more meal to it.
d.1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 329 Hutch..also a trap made hollow for the taking of Weasels, or such like Vermin alive. 1772T. Simpson Vermin Killer 4 Some make vse..of wooden traps, called hutches.
e.1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Hutch..2. A cistern or box for washing ore. Cornw.
f.1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. IV. iii. 42 [They] carry [pease] home in a hutch-waggon, as they call it here [Sandwich, Kent]. 1792A. Young Trav. France (1794) I. i. 84 Driving a one-horse booby hutch about the streets. 1796J. Boys Agric. Kent (1813) 54 The carriages used for carrying corn to market, &c. are called hutches, drawn by four horses..They are thirteen feet long..generally three feet wide before, and four behind at the bottom..and twenty [inches] deep. 1825–80Jamieson, Hutch, the kind of basket or small waggon, in which coals are brought from the mine. Lanarks., Renfr. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Hutches or Tubs, small waggons into which the miner loads his coal.
g.1802C. Findlater Agric. Surv. Peebles 140 Dung is..emptied from carts into every third furrow, in small heaps (or hutches), five or six of such hutches being contained in a single-horse cart. 1812J. Wilson Agric. Surv. Renfr. 26 The price of these pyrites or copperas stones, by old contract, was 2½d. per hutch, of two hundred weight. 1825–80Jamieson s.v., The coal hutch is two Winchester bushels. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade s.v., Six hutches of coal make a cart-load of about 14 cwt.
4. attrib., as hutch box (see 3 a), hutch trap (see 3 d); hutch table N. Amer. (see quot. 1961).
1744–50[see 3 f]. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 371 The common or hutch trap may be used with effect..where but a few vermin prevail. Ibid. 372 The weasel..may be readily caught by hutch or box traps. 1868Law Rep. Q. Bench Div. III. 288 A hutch-box, crib, or enclosed place in connection with a fishing mill-dam. 1928W. Nutting Furnit. Treas. Illustration 1770 (caption) Pine Chair Table. More Properly Hutch Table on Shoes..18th Century. 1961Webster, Hutch table, a combination table and chest whose top can be tilted back to convert the unit into a chair or settee. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 37/3 (Advt.), Genuine antique Canadiana pine turn-over hutch table, oval 72{pp}.
▪ II. † hutch, a. Obs.
[app. a phonetic variant of hulch a.; but cf. also huck-.]
Hunched, humped, gibbous: chiefly in hutch back. Also in comb. in hutch-back'd, hump-backed, hutch-shouldered, hump-shouldered.
1624Heywood Gunaik. ii. 115 Some..with crooked legges, and hutch-backes, rather like monsters than men. ― Captives ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, An ould bald fellowe, hutch-shoolderd. 1632― 1st Pt. Iron Age iii. i. F ij b, What if Thersites..striu'd to hide his hutch-backe. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xiii. 249 The Acephali..might be nothing but some strong hutch-back'd People.
▪ III. hutch, v.
Also 6 huch.
[f. prec. n.]
1. a. trans. To put or lay up in a hutch or chest. Also fig.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1584) 254 To huch up double Ducates, to tell golde. 1634Milton Comus 719 In her own loins She hutched the all-worshipped ore, and precious gems To store her children with. 1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis II. 213 Hutched among the gray and dewy slabs, in the bloomy bottom of the glen, the old brown mill was crouching by his spectral wheel.
b. intr. To crouch or squat. Also trans., with body (or the like) as object. Freq. as pa. pple. or ppl. a.
In restricted regional use.
1874E. Waugh Chimney Corner (1879) 151, I wonder how thou can for shame..sit keawerin' theer, hutch't of a lump, like garden-twod. 1892Mrs. H. Ward Hist. David Grieve vi. 139 Hutched thegither like an owd man o' seventy. 1894J. T. Clegg David's Loom v. 58 Fortin' hutches at mi feet! 1898― Works II. 302 So poor Ab were as ill off as afore, an' hutcht into his corner in a face as long as a bass fiddle. 1905W. B. Where White Man Treads 76 He will..hutch on his heels and watch, and comment. Ibid. 161 When we arrived, Taupoki hutched down on his heels without greeting, and fixed his eyes on George's boot-trees. 1918D. H. Lawrence New Poems 35 Sleep-suave limbs of a youth with long smooth thighs Hutched-up for warmth. 1956W. Golding Pincher Martin 7 He hutched his body towards the place where air had been but now it was gone. 1959― Free Fall ix. 170 Busily I hutched along the walls, knees down, hands against concrete.
2. To wash (ore) in a hutch (hutch n. 3 e).
In recent Dicts. |