online medical dictionary | definition of hutch

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. <chemical>

The case of a flour bolt.

4. <chemical>

A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See Bolting, etc.

Origin: OE. Hucche, huche, hoche, F. Huche, LL. Hutica.

1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. "She hutched the . . . Ore."

2. <chemical>

To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

Origin: Hutched; Hutching.

(01 Mar 1998)