hutch

Meaning

Noun

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. (slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
12. An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.

Verb

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

Synonyms

shanty

hut

🛖

shack

hovel

cage

catch

cellar

chest

construction

🚧

coop

cubicle

depository

dwelling

edifice

fabric

home

🏠

house

🏠

keep

kneading trough

pen

🖊️

place

repository

sliver

squat

stock room

storage

store

storehouse

storeroom

structure

vault

warehouse

promptuary

barrack

dough-trough

bin

box

📦

building

Translations

conigliera

barraco

Kasten

capanna

🛖

ambar

dolap

cabane

Kiste

huche

baracca

🛖

casupola

Baracke

cabana

Bau

Aufbau

🚧

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hucche

Inherited from Old English: hwiċe

Cognate with Old French: huche

Cognate with Frankish: *hutta

Cognate with Old English: hȳdan

In summary

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.