Definition of hatch

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Hatch (n.) 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..

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Oviferous :: Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched..
Dasypaedes :: Dasypaedes (n. pl.) Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.
Tow :: Tow (n.) The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle..
Beefeater :: Beefeater (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known..
Woodcracker :: Woodcracker (n.) The nuthatch.
Broach :: Broach (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers..
Praecoces :: Praecoces (n. pl.) A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Securipalp :: Securipalp (n.) One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.
Curvirostres :: Curvirostres (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches..
Myriapoda :: Myriapoda (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
Crosshatching :: Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle..
Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine..
Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge..
Machete :: Machete (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes..
Coamings :: Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges..
Hatchet :: Hatchet (n.) Specifically, a tomahawk..
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