HUTCH

v. n.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

A measure of two Winchester bushels.

4.
n.

The case of a flour bolt.

5.
n.

A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

6.
n.

A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.

7.
v.

To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

8.
v.

To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

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