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HUTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hutch mean? 

HUTCH (noun)
  The noun HUTCH has 2 senses:

1. a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animalsplay

2. small crude shelter used as a dwellingplay

  Familiarity information: HUTCH used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HUTCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hutch" is a kind of...):

cage; coop (an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hutch"):

rabbit hutch (a hutch for rabbits)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hovel; hut; hutch; shack; shanty

Hypernyms ("hutch" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hutch"):

igloo; iglu (an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome)

mudhif (a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained)


 Context examples 


The man leaned over and pulled up the front of a kind of hutch in the corner.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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