meaning of hatch

1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
2.
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
6.
The act of hatching.
7.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
8.
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
9.
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
10.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
11.
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
12.
A bedstead.
13.
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.
14.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
15.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
16.
a movable barrier covering a hatchway


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