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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 animals
2. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Familiarity information: HUTCH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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