Definitions for hatches

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Spelling: [hach]

IPA: /hætʃ/

Hatches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in hatches (acehhst).

Definitions for hatches

noun

1. the act of hatching.
2. something that is hatched, as a brood.
3. Nautical. Also called hatchway. an opening, usually rectangular, in the deck through which passengers can pass, cargo can be loaded or unloaded, etc. the cover over such an opening.
4. an opening that serves as a doorway or window in the floor or roof of a building.
5. the cover over such an opening.
6. Slang. the throat as used for drinking: .
7. Aeronautics. an opening or door in an aircraft.
8. the lower half of a divided door, both parts of which can be opened separately.
9. a small door, grated opening, or serving counter in or attached to the wall of a building, room, etc., as for a merchant's stall.
10. a bin or compartment built into a confined space, especially a deep storage bin.
11. Automotive. the cargo area in a hatchback. Also called liftgate. the hinged lid of a hatchback that swings upward to provide access to the cargo area.
12. anything resembling a hatch.
13. a shading line in drawing or engraving.

Idioms

1. batten down the / one's hatches, Nautical. prepare for stormy weather: used as a command. to prepare to meet an emergency or face a great difficulty:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring forth (young) from the egg.
2. to cause young to emerge from (the egg) as by brooding or incubating.
3. to bring forth or produce; devise; create; contrive; concoct:
4. to mark with lines, especially closely set parallel lines, as for shading in drawing or engraving.
5. hachure (def 3).

verb (used without object)

1. to be hatched.
2. to brood.

Origin of hatches

1200-50; Middle English hacchen; akin to German hecken to hatch

Examples for hatches

Today, hatch is a married father of one adopted son, but he longs to connect with his progeny.

“I would be proud, but my late mother said, ‘Don’t count your eggs, son, until they hatch,” he said.

From without I heard Grauble's voice in command: "Close the hatch."

The plan unveiled last January by hatch, Coburn and Burr is a good foundation.

The very brooding of the voice on a word, seems to hatch something of what is in it.

The hatch was so small that two men could not pass at a time, and I felt my way to it, in no haste.

Who could tell what devil's mischief they might hatch together!

hatch admits that he may be “a little odd,” but it turns out he's less odd than one might think.

But his efforts for hatch have been notable and have helped forge a relationship between the two men.

Quietly he climbed back to the passage and closed the hatch.