Hutch (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hutted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting.]
To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.
W. Irving.
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Hutch (?), n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]
1.
A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
2.
A measure of two Winchester bushels.
3. Mining
The case of a flour bolt.
4. Mining (a)
A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
(b)
A jig for washing ore.
Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.
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Hutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hutched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching.]
1.
To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
[R.] "She
hutched the . . . ore."
Milton.
2. Mining
To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
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