Word Meaning

hatch definition and meaning

v. t. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
v. t. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
v. t. To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
v. t. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
v. i. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
n. The act of hatching.
n. Development; disclosure; discovery.
n. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
n. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
n. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
n. A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
n. A bedstead.
n. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
n. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.

Crossword clues for hatch

- Bring out chickens
- Cadge lift
- Come from an egg
- Come out of an egg
- Concoct
- Covered opening in a wall or floor
- Deck opening
- Emerge from an egg
- Emerge from egg
- Give birth to
- Incubate
- Opening in ship’s deck
- Produce chickens
- Small doorway
- Somewhat chilly to come out of shell
- Trapdoor