hutch

Meanings

1. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
2. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
3. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
4. A cabinet for storing dishes.
5. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
6. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
7. The case of a flour bolt.
8. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
9. A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
10. A baker's kneading-trough.
11. The pavilion or dressing room.
12. An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.

1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
2. To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
3. To move with a jerk; to hitch.

1. A male given name.
2. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut. (cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.