From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.
Meanings
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
A trapdoor.
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. 1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 415:
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch. 1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 100:
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
(slang) A gullet.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass. 1879, Richard Jeffries, Wild Life in a Southern County:
(Scotland) A bedstead.
It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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hatchback (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · serving hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · The Hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · booby-hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchman (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · baby hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchboat (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · escape hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · buttery hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · batten down the hatches (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchwise (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · booby hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchwork (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchless (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · after-hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · warm hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · down the hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchway (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hatchlike (Terms derived from hatch (noun)) · hot hatch (Terms derived from hatch (noun))
mi kopani (1. horizontal door) · fi luukku (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · hu átjáró (1. horizontal door) · ru люк (1. horizontal door) · sv lucka (3. opening for serving food) · fi tarjoiluluukku (3. opening for serving food) · ru лаз (1. horizontal door) · sv lucka (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · es escotilla (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · ru лазе́йка (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · it osteriggio (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · de Durchreiche (3. opening for serving food) · ru люк (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · nrf êcoutil'ye (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · fr trappe (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · id palka (1. horizontal door) · ru лаз (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · hu csapóajtó (1. horizontal door) · nl luik (1. horizontal door) · pon ahs (1. horizontal door) · hu pinceajtó (1. horizontal door) · sv underhållslucka (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · de Luke (1. horizontal door) · ro trapă (1. horizontal door) · es escotilla (1. horizontal door) · nl doorgeefluik (3. opening for serving food) · fi luukku (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · ru шлюз (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · hu padlásajtó (1. horizontal door) · uk люк (3. opening for serving food) · fi huoltoluukku (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · sv lucka (1. horizontal door) · bg шубер (3. opening for serving food) · it botola (1. horizontal door) · fr passe-plat (3. opening for serving food) · ga haiste (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · bg люк (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · ga haiste (3. opening for serving food) · es aguatocho (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · ast chipitéu (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · hu nyílás (3. opening for serving food) · fr écoutille (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · es compuerta (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · it passavivande (3. opening for serving food) · pon ahs (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · uk люк (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · pt escotilha (1. horizontal door) · fr trappe (1. horizontal door) · ga haiste (1. horizontal door) · hu ablak (3. opening for serving food) · ast escotilla (1. horizontal door) · no luke (1. horizontal door) · hu feljáró (1. horizontal door) · fi luukku (3. opening for serving food) · cmn 艙口 /舱口 (1. horizontal door) · hu lejáró (1. horizontal door) · es escotilla (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · ru люк (3. opening for serving food) · ga haiste (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · sv serveringslucka (3. opening for serving food) · ast escotilla (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · es portillo (4. small door provided for access for maintenance) · hu zsilipkapu (5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine) · ja ハッチ (1. horizontal door) · fi luukku (1. horizontal door) · uk люк (1. horizontal door) · es escotillón (1. horizontal door)
From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.
Meanings
(transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną.
Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.
There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 266:
(qualifier:poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
These pullets are from an April hatch.
(as mayfly hatch, often) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches, but it's also useful for midge hatches. 2004, Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies, page 118:
Many years the mayfly hatch begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong hatches by mid-May. The hatches continue through midsummer. 2007, John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest, page 70:
a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104,
The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
(informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
fi parveilu (phenomenon related to insects' mating) · fi haudontaerä (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · fi pesue (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · it schiusa (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · hu fészekalja (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · fr couvée (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · hu kikelés (the act of hatching) · bg люпило (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · hu költés (the act of hatching) · ru вы́водок (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · it covata (birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time) · hu kiköltés (the act of hatching)
From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną.
Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.
Meanings
(intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.
(intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.
(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.
(transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
As for Cersei, pretending to work with her enemies while secretly hatching some grander scheme was pretty much what I expected for the truce going into it. 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.
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From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.
Meanings
(transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
(obsolete, transitive) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
His weapon hatch'd in blood. 1619, John Fletcher, “The Humorous Lieutenant”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i: