HATCH

noun a flood gate; a a sluice gate.

2. hatch ·noun a bedstead.

3. hatch ·noun development; disclosure; discovery.

4. hatch ·vt to close with a hatch or hatches.

5. hatch ·noun an opening into, or in search of, a mine.

6. hatch ·noun the act of hatching.

7. hatch ·noun a frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

8. hatch ·noun the chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

9. hatch ·noun a door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

10. hatch ·vt to cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. ·see hatching.

11. hatch ·vi to produce young;

— said of eggs; to come forth from the egg;

— said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, ·etc.

12. hatch ·vt to cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

13. hatch ·vt 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.

14. hatch ·vt 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.

15. hatch ·noun 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.