Hatch
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
The act of hatching.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
A bedstead.
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
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Hatch Quotations
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
Alan Shepard
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.
Rex Hunt
If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
Laurel Clark
I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.
Mark Kelly
Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door.
Mark Kelly
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Hatch Translations
hatch in Norwegian is klekke ut, skravere, kull, luke, ruge ut
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