hutch

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"Unless we can take the hutch which is built into the wall he'll die.

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  1. noun A pen or coop for small animals, especially rabbits.
  2. noun A cupboard with drawers for storage and usually open shelves on top, often used for dishes.
  3. noun A chest or bin for storage.
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  • They would occasionally invite either Been or Sandor to their hutch, although spending the night with the two of them was more work than swimming the Straits of Sweven in a spacesuit. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • She gathered everything m except the shoe under the hutch--and tossed it in her room. —  EBSCOhost
  • The wire had been well repaired, and overnight the hutch was always fastened by a hook. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
  • A baby hutt was a booby-hutch, a clumsy, ill-contrived covered carriage. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • The latter sentences were spoken from the forecastle, whither Davies had crept through a low sliding door, like that of a rabbit-hutch, and was already busy with a kettle over a stove which I made out to be a battered and disreputable twin brother of the No. —  The Riddle of the Sands
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  1. Middle English huche, chest, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hūtica, possibly of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English hucche, huche, hoche, whucche, a box, chest, from Old French huche, French huche, a hutch, bin, a kneading-trough or-tub, a mill-hopper, = Spanish OPg. hucha, from Middle Latin hutica, a chest; prob. of Teutonic origin, perhaps connected ult. with Old High German hutta, a hut, shelter: see hut.
  2. from hutch, n.
  3. A variant of hotch: see hotch, and cf. hustle.
 

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