Noun: hatch
| Singular | hatch |
| Plural | hatches |
Sample Sentences
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Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
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The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
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A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. [1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 415:]
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A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch. [1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 100:]
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The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass. [1879, Richard Jeffries, Wild Life in a Southern County:]
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It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like hatch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
hacche', Dutch Nouns '
hek'.