hatch

Meaning

Noun

1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
2. A trapdoor.
3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
6. (slang) A gullet.
7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
9. (Scotland) A bedstead.
10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Verb

To close with a hatch or hatches.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To emerge from an egg.
2. (intransitive) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
3. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
4. (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).

Verb

1. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

Synonyms

brood

incubate

hatchway

hatching

scuttle

window

🪟

incubation

crosshatch

bloom

hatch out

shade

sit

🪑

think up

ticket office

ticket window

cover

manhole

trap door

wicket

oven door

explode

sit on eggs

nurture

office

🏢

opening

aperture

burst

burst open

box office

plot

hachure

concoct

breed

dream up

lay

counter

think of

screen

serving hatch

shading

shell

🐚

shoot forth

sinus

skylight

trap

🪤

trapdoor

break into pieces

service hatch

ship’s hold

hatchures

Translations

éclore

ausbrüten

Luke

schraffieren

schlüpfen

écoutille

escotilha

escotilla

trappe

arceren

hecken

sportello

🚪

brüten

schiudersi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hacche

Inherited from Old English: hæċ

Cognate with Dutch: hek

Inherited from Old English: *hæċċan

Cognate with German: hecken

In summary

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.